Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3470 mails)

[praisetazio <praisetazio@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Alle 18:51, lunedì 22 settembre 2003, js ha scritto:
> You can't.  It will remain until you reboot.  They are essentially
> harmless until you've got thousands of them.  It's just something you
> have to live with.
>
> John S.
>
> Tom Nielsen wrote:
> >I've got this process that is defunct. I ran kill 7690 as root and
> >nothing happens. Tried kill -l 7690, nothing. Here's my line:
> >
> >tom-linux:/home/tom # ps aux | grep " Z "
> >tom       7690  0.0  0.0     0    0 ?        Z    08:59   0:00 [netstat]
> ><defunct>
> >root      7835  0.0  0.1  3544  572 pts/1    S    09:34   0:00 grep  Z
> >tom-linux:/home/tom # kill -l 7690
> >bash: kill: 7690: invalid signal specification
> >
> >I'm sure I'm doing something wrong.
> >
> >Thanks,
> >Tom

Killing them does not lead to success. Kill their parent until init inherit 
them and they will go to the deserved rest.

Praise