On Tue, 11 Nov 2003, Ariz Jacinto wrote: > > >>how to kill zombie processes w/o rebooting? > >> > > trace it's parent process and kill it? > > tried it before but it wasnt enough. >
trace upto the super parent process surely being one level below 'init'. when that's killed, init will cleanup the zombies for you. under redhat, you can use 'pstree -p' to find the process id of the super parent. the parent processes could be deficient in using wait() calls. but init will be happy to do that for us. the only time zombies wont die under init is when the kernel has a bug or is already unstable i think. pong -- Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Official Website: http://plug.linux.org.ph Searchable Archives: http://marc.free.net.ph . To leave, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/plug . Are you a Linux newbie? To join the newbie list, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/ph-linux-newbie
