From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Mar 9 13: 1:54 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from heorot.1nova.com (sub24-23.member.dsl-only.net [63.105.24.23]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 31E0F37B718 for ; Fri, 9 Mar 2001 13:01:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from hamellr@1nova.com) Received: by heorot.1nova.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id D782B18C3; Thu, 8 Mar 2001 13:25:39 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by heorot.1nova.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id CEBF518C2 for ; Thu, 8 Mar 2001 13:25:39 -0800 (PST) Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2001 13:25:39 -0800 (PST) From: Rick Hamell Cc: FreeBSD-questions Subject: Re: zombies! In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20010309084439.00b01920@mail.udel.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > >what do 'zombies' means? > I don't know the fully definition of them, so the answer of "process which > have ended but have not been cleared fully from the process table" might > not be a fully correct answer... > > >how can i kill them? > Find the parent process, and kill it or restart it. But under no circumstances are you to willy nilly go about decapitaing them with chain saws. We realize that you have a choice in BSD systems, and thank you for choosing ours. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message