From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jan 7 1:53:35 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 086CC14F09 for ; Fri, 7 Jan 2000 01:53:26 -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 CKVJLMJH; Fri, 7 Jan 2000 11:44:44 +0200 Received: by littlecruncher.prizm.dhs.org (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 2917298; Fri, 7 Jan 2000 11:44:45 +0200 (SAST) Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2000 11:44:44 +0200 From: Alwyn Schoeman To: Adam Cc: "FoxChat.Net" , FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: Killing Zombies. Message-ID: <20000107114438.B84965@littlecruncher.prizm.dhs.org> References: <20000106140935.J8865@littlecruncher.prizm.dhs.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: ; from bsdx@looksharp.net on Thu, Jan 06, 2000 at 12:34:09PM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG This might not be the case for freebsd, but if the parent is gone then it should automatically be "adopted" by the init process. On Thu, Jan 06, 2000 at 12:34:09PM -0500, 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. > > > > > > > >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