Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3470 mails)

[Tom Nielsen <tom@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi guys. 

I had to reboot and that took care of the problem....for now.

Tom

On Mon, 2003-09-22 at 15:16, Jim Norton wrote:

> > 
> > Alle 18:51, luned=EC 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=
> > =20
> > them and they will go to the deserved rest.
> > 
> > Praise
> > 
> 
> 
> Just don't kill the parent if the parent is INIT.  That would be bad. :-)

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Tom Nielsen
Neuro Logic Systems
805.389.5435 x18
www.neuro-logic.com