killing!

[mike packard <mpackard@museum.state.il.us>]

Is there a way to kill a process even more than kill -9?  

I've got a tar that thinks it's still using the tape drive and won't give
it up.  I just want to make it go away!  <cry> The last thing it said
before it died was:  
tar: Cannot write to /dev/st0: Input/output error
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now

And now it's frozen.  I think prolly the reason I'm having problems is
that it's got the device and doesn't want to let go.  I don't really want
to have to reboot every time this happens.

On a related note, is there a better way of backing up to tape other than
just "tar cvf /dev/st0 /"?  I've tried bru but I don't like it very much. 
Tar works great when it works, but when it doesn't it doesn't.  :)



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