Claudiu,
ZOMBIES have parent processes that must be killed before the ZOMBIE can be
terminated.
--Hal.
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On Tue, 30 Jun 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> though zombies are already dead, I would like to kill the ones haunting my
> computer.
> kill -9 <pid_of_the_zombie> won't work
> neither 'killall <zombie>' nor 'kill -SIGKILL <pid_of_the_zombie>'.
>
> rebooting is not an option because I'm trying to prove high up-time.
>
> what else?
>
> Claudiu
>
>
>
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