At 06:19 AM 2/03/2005 +0000, Dave McNeill wrote:

>I am watching a gfix -sweep which has been running for nearly two
>hours. It's coming up to 6am and I need to bring the site back up. Is
>it safe to kill this process?

If the database is in shutdown, you can bring it back online while the
sweep is running. It would be a shame to lose two hours' worth of garbage
cleanup.

./helen