Im running Redhat and the pvfs2-server can be killed! Whats wrong?
On some Redhat systems, for compatibility reasons, the pvfs2-server program is actually a script that wraps the installed pvfs2-server binary. We do this ONLY if we detect that PVFS is being installed on a system with an NPTL implementation that we’re incompatible with. Specifically, the script exports the LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.2.5 environment variable and value to avoid using the NPTL at run-time. The script quite literally exports this variable and then runs the installed pvfs2-server binary which is named pvfs2-server.bin. So to properly shutdown or kill the pvfs2-server application once it’s running, you need to issue a killall pvfs2-server.bin command instead of the more common killall pvfs2-server command.
