Problems with KILL

[sym]

I had a process that I tried to kill. I tried the following:

kill <pid>
kill -9 <pid>
killall <process name>
killall -9 <process name>
several other variations of the above.

None of these commands got rid of the process. I was wondering what I was doing wrong. I did man kill and man killall, but that didn't clarify it much.

Thanks.

[chikn]

Some runaway or frozen processes just wont die without a reboot. Its just that simple.

[camelrider]

Are you logged in as the owner of the process? Or as root?

[Malakin]

You can try "pstree" or "pstree -p" to see if it's a child process and kill the owner.

If you do a "ps aux" in the 8th column if it's listed as a Z meaning zombie only a reboot will get rid of it.

[sym]

Thanks for the help.

That is more or less what I assumed, but I thought I had left the rebooting behind with windows ;) .