Question on "Service Stopping"

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From: Nimit Mehta (chocofilium_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 09/08/04


Date: Wed, 8 Sep 2004 16:12:32 -0700

You cannot stop critical system services just like that.
Specify which services you are trying to stop. If the
service you are trying to stop "hangs" without giving you
any error messages, its possible that its not functioning
properly or has got corrupted.

-Nimit

>-----Original Message-----
>Hi,
>How can I do a "Force quit" on a service? For instance,
if I chose to
>stop a service, and it gets in a state of "Stopping" and
just sits
>there.. how can I recover from this without rebooting?
>.
>