From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Aug 25 9:28:52 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 18F8437B400 for ; Sun, 25 Aug 2002 09:28:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: from studnet.sk (kripel.unitra.sk [193.87.12.67]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B349543E6E for ; Sun, 25 Aug 2002 09:28:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rado@kripel.studnet.sk) Received: from kripel.studnet.sk (rado@localhost [IPv6:::1]) by studnet.sk (8.12.5/angel's version) with ESMTP id g7PGSINJ043979 for ; Sun, 25 Aug 2002 18:28:18 +0200 (CEST) Received: (from rado@localhost) by kripel.studnet.sk (8.12.5/8.12.3/Submit) id g7PGSIvE043967 for questions@FreeBSD.org; Sun, 25 Aug 2002 18:28:18 +0200 (CEST) Date: Sun, 25 Aug 2002 18:28:18 +0200 From: Radko Keves To: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: How kill Zombie Message-ID: <20020825162818.GA42137@studnet.sk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >You can't "kill" a zombie process. It's parent process is responsible >for cleaning it up. Your choices are: > 1. kill the parent process. > 2. fix the code in the parent process to clean up after itself. hi that's nice but what to do if the process was adopted by init ;) -- -------------- bye R.R.K.K. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message