From owner-freebsd-questions Tue May 26 09:00:48 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA21918 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 26 May 1998 09:00:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from odyssey.apana.org.au (odyssey.apana.org.au [203.11.114.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA21885 for ; Tue, 26 May 1998 09:00:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dean@odyssey.apana.org.au) Received: from localhost (dean@localhost) by odyssey.apana.org.au (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id AAA18338; Wed, 27 May 1998 00:00:48 +0800 (WST) Date: Wed, 27 May 1998 00:00:48 +0800 (WST) From: Dean Hollister Reply-To: Dean Hollister To: Dan Nelson cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: Killing zombie processes In-Reply-To: <19980526104900.A1032@emsphone.com> 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 On Tue, 26 May 1998, Dan Nelson wrote: > When you say "killing the parent doesn't work", do you mean that > killing the parent did NOT remove the child's pid, or you couldn't even > kill the parent at all? What does a 'ps axl' print for the processes? I could not kill the parent at all. bash$ ps -axl | grep 4994 10 4994 4803 0 -6 0 0 0 - Z+ v0- 0:00.00 (tail) And also: bash$ ps -t /dev/ttyv0 PID TT STAT TIME COMMAND 4803 v0- IEs+ 0:00.00 (sh) 4994 v0- Z+ 0:00.00 (tail) See? Here, the sh process will not exit, because of the zombie. It is trying to exit, but can't. Regards, d. +-------------------------------------------------------+ | Dean Hollister, | dean@odyssey.apana.org.au | | Perth, Western Australia. | deanh@iinet.net.au | +-------------------------------------------------------+ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message