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Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2004 11:38:44 -0600
From: Vulpes Velox <kitbsdlist2@HotPOP.com>
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Subject: Re: Can't kill process
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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...