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