On Mon, 2003-09-22 at 12:42, 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
Tom, You are not doing anything wrong. This is a "defunct" process left over by a parent process that died before the child process (7835) could finish it's work. The only way to get rid of "defunct" processes is to reboot the PC. -- Ken Schneider unix user since 1989 linux user since 1994 SuSE user since 1998