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Date:      Thu, 10 Dec 1998 02:42:28 -0500 (EST)
From:      "Woodchuck"  <djv@bedford.net>
To:        randyk@ccsales.com
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG, randyk@ccsales.com
Subject:   Re: Zombie Processes
Message-ID:  <199812100742.CAA08273@castor.chuck>
In-Reply-To: <19981207121245.09620@ccsales.com> from randyk at "Dec 7, 98 12:12:45 pm"

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randyk wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I've noticed that sendmail misbehaves when there are zombie processes and that
> it is not easy to get rid of these processes:
> 
>  2118  ??  Z      0:00.00  (sendmail)
>  3356  ??  Ss     0:00.01 sendmail: accepting connections on port 25 (sendmail)
>  3357  ??  S      0:00.18 sendmail: LAA01821: from queue (sendmail)
>  5509  ??  Z      0:00.00  (sendmail)
> 12905  ??  Z      0:00.00  (sendmail)
> 14306  ??  Z      0:00.00  (sendmail)
> 27086  ??  Z      0:00.00  (sendmail)
>  3379  p1  R+     0:00.00 grep sendmail
> 
> kill -9 does not work.
> 
> Does anyone know how to deal with these without rebooting?
> 
>

do ps -jax to identify the parent processes. Then kill the parent.

Dave 
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