On Tue, 11 Nov 2003, Paolo Vanni M. Ve�egas wrote: > He probably means /it won't do/. His answer makes sense, looking at > the question's conditions. The not operator in the original query > means that the expected answer should be the complement of the > supposed answer had that operator not been there, but a "yes" is still > appropriate, since the reply goes along the same logic conditions that > the query sets. > > That is: > Q. "Will a 'kill -9 <pid>' do?" > A. "Yes. It will do." > > Q. "Will a 'kill -9 <pid>' not do?" (logical equivalent of the original > question) > A. "Yes. It will not do." > > Or have my biological logic systems already been fried out?
Oh boy this has gotten far... the problem: how do you kill a zombie process (I take it as removing a zombie process) without rebooting. the answer: shutdown now You don't reboot. You go to single user. Then type exit to restart. At least you don't reboot. But I guess it does not answer your problem, just your question. <snicker> -- 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
