On Sun, 2003-08-24 at 03:10, Brian Curtis wrote: > How does one go about removing defunct processes from the pid table? > I've tried kill -9 on the pid and everything else I can think of. The > processes don't seem to have a ppid (ps -axf), and just won't go away. > The more colorful name for these kinds of processes are "zombies". You can't kill a zombie, it is already dead. -- http://www.shorewall.net Shorewall, for all your firewall needs -- Shrike-list mailing list Shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/shrike-list
