You are correct that killing the zombie processes (kill [-9] <pid of zombie>) won't do anything. However, if their parent process is something other than PID 1 (init), you can (in general) get rid of the zombie by killing the parent process. To get rid of zombies whose parent is init, you will need to reboot. Maarten Broekman Email: maarten.broekman@xxxxxxx -----Original Message----- From: redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Cameron Simpson Sent: Monday, October 22, 2007 8:33 PM To: debu; General Red Hat Linux discussion list Cc: smitha rao Subject: Re: Killing Zombie process! On 22Oct2007 22:46, debu <debajit_kataki@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: | Yes you can do so... No, you cannot. | Try this: | ps aux | awk '{ print $8 " " $2 }' | grep -w Z; This may find them. Killing them won't do anything. -- Cameron Simpson <cs@xxxxxxxxxx> DoD#743 http://www.cskk.ezoshosting.com/cs/ Zombies don't get pumped. - Jake, in rec.climbing -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
