From owner-freebsd-questions Tue May 26 21:16:36 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA14087 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 26 May 1998 21:16:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA13931 for ; Tue, 26 May 1998 21:16:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id VAA00108; Tue, 26 May 1998 21:15:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Tue, 26 May 1998 21:15:38 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Dean Hollister cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: Killing zombie processes In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 26 May 1998, Dean Hollister wrote: > 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? Fix the offending program that zombie-ing. Add a wait() call just before it exits to reap the children. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message