unable to terminate a process

From: Pradeep Mishra (pradeep.h.mishra@gmail.com)
Date: Fri Sep 21 2007 - 10:27:16 EDT


Hi Gurus

 I can't kill a process `spamd` and i found that this process is
freezed and is not letting me kill.

netstat output shows
#netstat -n | grep 783
127.0.0.1.783 127.0.0.1.34874 32722 0 32768 0 CLOSE_WAIT

and i =ps -aef | grep spamd
 nobody 4275 1 0 16:37:09 ? 0:00
/usr/perl5/5.6.1/bin/perl -T /usr/local/bin/spamd -D -d -p 783
4 such processes which are not responding to kill or pkill commands.
tried to find an spamd.pid but that too is not there anywhere and now
I have difficulty restarting the process as the port 783 is
unavailable due to this frozen proc.
We have sun comm suite 5 installed and this server is also running spamd.
So pls shed some light on how to kill this process without rebooting
the server.
the OS is sun 5.9a.

Thanks for help.

Regards
Pradeep Mishra

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