From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Aug 10 20: 7:59 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from usgs.gov (igsmn002.wr.usgs.gov [130.118.41.22]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D0A4C14D44 for ; Tue, 10 Aug 1999 20:07:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rsowders@usgs.gov) Received: from IGSMN-Message_Server by usgs.gov with Novell_GroupWise; Tue, 10 Aug 1999 20:06:30 -0700 Message-Id: X-Mailer: Novell GroupWise 5.2 Date: Tue, 10 Aug 1999 20:06:02 -0700 From: "Robert Sowders" To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, yurtesen@ispro.net.tr Subject: Re: processes cant be killed? Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Did you try kill -9 7991? >>> Evren Yurtesen 8/8/99 12:39:51 PM >>> hello, I have 2 processes and I am not able to kill them what is the problem? I have heard about the zombie processes are these that kind of processes? (well I do not have any clue about what is a zombie process. Where can I learn it from?) root 7991 0.0 0.0 45044 0 p1- D