Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2000 14:34:01 -0500 (EST) From: "Crist J. Clark" <cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> To: bsdx@looksharp.net (Adam) Cc: alwyns@littlecruncher.prizm.dhs.org (Alwyn Schoeman), Zapper@FoxChat.Net (FoxChat.Net), freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG (FreeBSD Questions) Subject: Re: Killing Zombies. Message-ID: <200001061934.OAA20365@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0001061233221.27160-100000@turtle.looksharp.net> from Adam at "Jan 6, 2000 12:34:09 pm"
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Adam wrote, > 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. % kill -CHLD <pid> Should usually do it. These are typically parent processes waiting for daughter processes to die (or do _something_). However, there are reasons why zombies hang around. This is not recommended unless there is a good reason to do it. -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@home.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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