[gentoo-user] ps -A: netstat defunct ?

Hi. I have found this happens quite often recently. I am not familier with these network things, so please help answering some questions of mine. What applications would call this process? What does this means? Why I (even as root) can't kill it? Thank you. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] ps -A: netstat defunct ?

On Monday 17 March 2003 22:17, Lai Liu-yuan wrote: What applications would call this process? don't know What does this means? the prozess is dead but not removed from the prozess list yet. Why I (even as root) can't kill it? because it is already dead. It will vanish from the prozess

Re: [gentoo-user] ps -A: netstat defunct ?

Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: It will vanish from the prozess list after some time. It will disappear, when the parent process dies. You can check for the parent's PID by doing: ps -o ppid -p $process-id-of-zombie JZ -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list