[BTM] Cheesy fix for non-syncing Tungsten/T's!

[Joost van de Griek]

*Note: quoted text follows my reply.

For terminal-haters, you can also download Pseudo, which allows you to start
any application as root without activating the root account for login.

That way, you can kill any process from Process Viewer's warm fuzzy GUI.

<http://personalpages.tds.net/~brian_hill/pseudo.html>

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Joost van de Griek
http://www.jvdg.net/


On 2003-01-15 14:33, "Richard McKay" <richard.mckay1 at virgin.net> wrote:

> Martin,
> 
> The first question is: do you have the "superuser" account activated in
> netinfo? If not, are you willing to activate this account? There may be
> security issues involved with doing this that you might wish to
> consider...not to mention the damage that you can do if you do not know what
> you are doing in the root account...If you do proceed...
> 
> If the superuser account is activated then you only need to find out the
> "PID" of the blued process, this can be done easiest in Process Viewer
> (applications folder/utilites/Process Viewer) make sure that in the show
> window (upper right) you have the choice "all processes" listed and then you
> can comfortably scroll down to where blued is listed (under the name column)
> highlight this line by clicking on it and click on the arrow at the bottom
> of the window with "more info", this will list the Process ID number you
> will need in terminal. (this can be done with terminal using top command but
> if you are not familiar with terminal then the above may be more
> comfortable). Next open terminal and switch to the super user account with
> su command...below are examples that should be accurate...I do not have the
> super user activated (your computer name will probably be different and the
> name listed will be as well...
> 
> [SAL9000:~] home% cd /
> 
> Note that you do not have to be in an administrator account to do this but
> will need to switch users (su) in terminal to an account that does and then
> su to root...
> 
> ie.
> your normal account to admin account to root account...each time entering
> the proper password for that account.
> 
> 
> [SAL9000:/] home% su rmckay (admin account)
> Password: type the password that you use for admin account here
> [SAL9000:/] rmckay% su root
> Password: type the password that you used for root in netinfo here
> 
> then it should show you as root
> 
> [SAL9000:/] root%
> 
> now type the following
> 
> [SAL9000:/] root% kill 395
> [SAL9000:/] root%
> 
> kill is not verbose (in other words it will not confirm that the process is
> stopped, at least not without using further options...for more info see man
> kill) so there will be no confirmation except in your Process Viewer
> window...
> 
> In Process Viewer you should now see that blued is not there anymore, at
> least temporarily...and then you can do the synch (if this fix does work for
> others)
> 
> Sorry about the length of this post...tried to be brief but if there are any
> questions let us know...
> 
> HTH,
> 
> Richard
> --
> 
> Martim Weinstein wrote the following:
> 
>> I want to try this but using my regular account so my question is how
>> do I kill this process in Terminal using my administrator account since
>> Process Manager doesn't allow me because it belongs to root?