From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jan 7 22:32:16 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de (dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de [139.174.243.252]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3AC3E150C1 for ; Fri, 7 Jan 2000 22:32:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from olli@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de) Received: (from olli@localhost) by dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) id HAA02206; Sat, 8 Jan 2000 07:32:13 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from olli) Date: Sat, 8 Jan 2000 07:32:13 +0100 (CET) Message-Id: <200001080632.HAA02206@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de> From: Oliver Fromme To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Killing Zombies. X-Newsgroups: list.freebsd-questions In-Reply-To: <854d7m$1ffv$1@atlantis.rz.tu-clausthal.de> User-Agent: tin/1.4.1-19991201 ("Polish") (UNIX) (FreeBSD/3.4-19991219-STABLE (i386)) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG [Format of quoted mail fixed.] Alwyn Schoeman 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 -- Oliver Fromme, Leibnizstr. 18/61, 38678 Clausthal, Germany (Info: finger userinfo:olli@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de) "In jedem Stück Kohle wartet ein Diamant auf seine Geburt" (Terry Pratchett) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message