Hello, Chris Brown: > kill pid# did not work. Somewhere along the way the jobs attained the > "zombie" status, and kill wouldn't touch them. I finally rebooted. > > Can someone explain what a zombie is and how to kill it?
The idea is that when a process dies, gets killed or just exits, its parent must be notified; if this notification can't happen at once, the process is labelled `zombie'. When notification goes through, the zombie disappears. So basically it's being kept around for bookkeeping reasons. To get rid of a zombie, you can also kill the parent. HTH Jiri -- <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> We'll know the future has arrived when every mailer transparently quotes lines that begin with "From ", but no-one remembers why.
