Re: kill zonbie process without reboot?

[Kent West <westk@acu.edu>]

Bob Proulx wrote:

> > Is there any way to kill zonbie process without reboot the system?
> >    
>
> Zombie processes are already dead and you can't kill them deader than
> dead.  The system is waiting for their parent to get their return code
> data.  That means you have a bad parent.  Find the parent of the
> zombie process and kill the bad parent.
>
>  ps -efH | less
>
> Bob
>  
Ya learn somethin' new every day. I love this list  :-)

Kent



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