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Date:      Sat, 03 Sep 2005 15:14:33 +0200
From:      =?ISO-8859-1?Q?K=F6vesd=E1n_G=E1bor?= <gabor.kovesdan@t-hosting.hu>
To:        akhthar@gmail.com
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: kill the zombie processes
Message-ID:  <4319A1B9.70601@t-hosting.hu>
In-Reply-To: <888ff6540509030519101cfedd@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <888ff6540509030519101cfedd@mail.gmail.com>

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Akhthar Parvez K wrote:

>HI all,
>
>Is there any way to kill the zombie processes in FreeBSD other than 
>rebooting the server. Thanks
>
>  
>
Look for the pid number in the output of "ps aux", and issue "kill -KILL 
pid".
Normally kill sends a SIGTERM signal but if You specify the -KILL option 
it sends the SIGKILL signal.

Cheers,

Gabor Kovesdan



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