First of all, he already said the parent was "init", and it's not a terribly bright idea to kill init, as it will leave your machine totally useless Secondly, killing the parent process only serves to re-parent the children to init, which then eventually will reap them. But since init already is the parent..... On Fri, 2006-10-20 at 22:40 +0200, 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.