Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3139 mails)

[Mike Noble <mgnoble@xxxxxxxxx>]

Darryl Gregorash wrote:
> On 20/10/06 14:40, Francesco Teodori wrote:
>> On a shell, type pstree, then kill the parent process.
>>
>> Francesco
>>
>>
>> Gilberto I. Monroy Lopez wrote:
>>
>>  
>>> Hi
>>>
>>> Does anybody knows how to kill a zombie process? I know that the only
>>> way to
>>> kill the zombie process is when you reboot the computer, but if I
>>> couldnt do
>>> that? what other options does I have?, somebody told me that there is
>>> another way and it is sending a signal to the process zombie because
>>> it is
>>> in a state of wait4(), but I dont know it is true but if it were, how
>>> could
>>> i do that? because the parent is the init process pid 1..
>>>
>>> regards.
>>>
>>>    
>>  
> Please read again: I do not believe you wish to be killing off init.
> 

You can send init the HUP signal which will tell it to restart:

kill -HUP 1
or
kill -1 1

This probably will not get rid of the zombie process.

Mike