Re: [newbie] Zombies

2004-03-03 Thread Richard Urwin
On Wednesday 03 Mar 2004 7:47 am, Raffaele Belardi wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How do I kill zombie processes? When I run TOP it shows that there are 2 zombie processes, but I don't know how to determine their PID, so I don't know how to kill them. I'm figuring that a zombie is a

Re: [newbie] Zombies

2004-03-03 Thread Ricardo Castanho de Oliveira Freitas
On Wednesday 03 March 2004 15:47, Richard Urwin wrote: Hmm! I got it know! Zombie processes are processes that have exited, but whose parent process hasn't got around to cleaning up. Therefore it is more likely that the parent process has crashed. To find the parent process use the command: