From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 6 4: 8:12 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from exchange.prism.co.za (exchange.prism.co.za [196.34.63.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 941DF14F64 for ; Thu, 6 Jan 2000 04:08:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from alwyns@littlecruncher.prizm.dhs.org) Received: from littlecruncher.prizm.dhs.org (196.34.63.201 [196.34.63.201]) by exchange.prism.co.za with SMTP (Microsoft Exchange Internet Mail Service Version 5.5.2448.0) id CKVJLK89; Thu, 6 Jan 2000 14:09:42 +0200 Received: by littlecruncher.prizm.dhs.org (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 8989F93; Thu, 6 Jan 2000 14:09:41 +0200 (SAST) Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2000 14:09:39 +0200 From: Alwyn Schoeman To: "FoxChat.Net" Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: Killing Zombies. Message-ID: <20000106140935.J8865@littlecruncher.prizm.dhs.org> References: <386EEDF0.A367E24E@FoxChat.Net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <386EEDF0.A367E24E@FoxChat.Net>; from Zapper@FoxChat.Net on Sun, Jan 02, 2000 at 12:19:29AM -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, Jan 02, 2000 at 12:19:29AM -0600, FoxChat.Net wrote: > How does one kill a "zombie" process? You don't. Zombie processes aren't really processes, they're just hanging around in the process table until something happens, what precisely I've for- gotten. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message