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From: Dean Hollister <dean@odyssey.apana.org.au>
To: Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com>
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Subject: Re: Killing zombie processes
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On Tue, 26 May 1998, Dan Nelson wrote:

> Do a "ps axl -t v0", and see what's under the "WCHAN" column for pid
> 4803.  That's the kernel event the process is waiting for.  If it says
> "ttywai", it's trying to write something to the console (make sure
> scroll-lock isn't on).

Yep, that's what came back. How do I kill it? I cannot get at the
scroll-lock key from here.

Regards,

d.

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