Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2004 11:38:44 -0600 From: Vulpes Velox <kitbsdlist2@HotPOP.com> To: Michael Sig Birkmose <michael@gisp.dk> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Can't kill process Message-ID: <20040224113844.4f27f9de@vixen42.> In-Reply-To: <20040224181502.C65849@server.gisp.dk> References: <20040224181502.C65849@server.gisp.dk>
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On Tue, 24 Feb 2004 18:19:38 +0100 (CET) Michael Sig Birkmose <michael@gisp.dk> wrote: > Hi, > > I am currently running FreeBSD 4.9, and I have a user who somehow > managed to get some dead bash processes. I have repeatedly attempted > to kill -9 this process without any luck. The way I understood it > was that kill -9 was an"offer that the process can't refuce" :) I.e. > that the process would be terminated no matter wat by the OS? > > I tried man kill, and noticed that some shells might have a builtin > kill command. Therefore I even tried running /bin/kill explicitly > with no further luck. > > Does anyone have an idea of what I have to do, in order to kill the > proces? It is zombied most likely... man ps and then search for zombie...
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