From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 6 9:34: 2 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from turtle.looksharp.net (cc360882-a.strhg1.mi.home.com [24.2.221.22]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 27477156EE for ; Thu, 6 Jan 2000 09:33:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bsdx@looksharp.net) Received: from localhost (bsdx@localhost) by turtle.looksharp.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA27316; Thu, 6 Jan 2000 12:34:09 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from bsdx@looksharp.net) Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2000 12:34:09 -0500 (EST) From: Adam To: Alwyn Schoeman Cc: "FoxChat.Net" , FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: Killing Zombies. In-Reply-To: <20000106140935.J8865@littlecruncher.prizm.dhs.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I believe to remove a zombie you can try to figure out its parent process and kill that instead. If its already gone then I don't know what to say. :) On Thu, 6 Jan 2000, Alwyn Schoeman wrote: >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 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message