May not be a zombie..you can't kill a zombie... must be a stuck process... many programs check if the program is already running or not and refuses to run if it sees itself (or a copy of itself) running already.
On Tue, 11 Nov 2003, manny wrote: > On Tue, 11 Nov 2003, Pong wrote: > > > well a zombie in linux is a process whose process space (code/data) > > are already gone but still has an entry in the process table in kernel. > > Hmm... Can zombies prevent a program from launching again? > > In my experience. many times OpenOffice won't load because of what seems > to be a zombie OpenOffice process is still listed by ps aux. Killing it > usually solves the problem. Is this the same case, or is this something > else? > > God bless! > -- 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
