Re: [SLE] How do I kill a Zombie?

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