Date: Sat, 8 Jan 2000 07:32:13 +0100 (CET) From: Oliver Fromme <olli@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Killing Zombies. Message-ID: <200001080632.HAA02206@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de> In-Reply-To: <854d7m$1ffv$1@atlantis.rz.tu-clausthal.de>
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Alwyn Schoeman <alwyns@littlecruncher.prizm.dhs.org> wrote in list.freebsd-questions:
> 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. :)
>
> This might not be the case for freebsd, but if the parent is gone then it should
> automatically be "adopted" by the init process.
Yes, exactly, that's why Adam suggested to kill the parent
process, in order to get rid of the zombies.
Regards
Oliver
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