On Thu, 16 Jan 2003 09:48:45 +1300
John Blance <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Yeah reboot works
> 
> No they aren't re-spawning processes, but rather hung ones. The type
> that if you kill off the process that started then [usually a shell]
> they become owned by init [i.e. PID 1]
> 
> Back in the old days kill -9 would stop anything!!! 

Not so sure you are right there. Zombies have always been difficult to
kill (search google or google groups for "killing zombies linux" if you
want to waste an afernoon LOL)

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