22 Sep
2003
22 Sep
'03
16:49
On Mon, 2003-09-22 at 09:44, Andreas Winkelmann wrote:
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.
# kill -9 pid
is the hardest way. If that doesn't work you have to wait or reboot.
-- Andreas
Looks like I'll have to reboot. -9 didn't help. Thanks though. -- Tom Nielsen Neuro Logic Systems 805.389.5435 x18 www.neuro-logic.com