From owner-freebsd-questions Tue May 26 08:50:08 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA19110 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 26 May 1998 08:50:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan@dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA18888 for ; Tue, 26 May 1998 08:49:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA01063; Tue, 26 May 1998 10:49:00 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dan) Message-ID: <19980526104900.A1032@emsphone.com> Date: Tue, 26 May 1998 10:49:00 -0500 From: Dan Nelson To: Dean Hollister , FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: Killing zombie processes References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.92.4i In-Reply-To: ; from "Dean Hollister" on Tue May 26 20:07:10 GMT 1998 X-OS: FreeBSD 2.2.6-STABLE Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In the last episode (May 26), Dean Hollister said: > I have another occurance of these Zombies causing bash processes not > to exit. I cannot kill the zombie, and killing the parent doesn't > work. A couple people did have some other suggestions, any ideas? You can't kill zombies because they're already dead (blame those wacky Unix authors for the name) When you say "killing the parent doesn't work", do you mean that killing the parent did NOT remove the child's pid, or you couldn't even kill the parent at all? What does a 'ps axl' print for the processes? -Dan Nelson dnelson@emsphone.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message