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Click to See Complete Forum and Search --> : I'd like to kill a zombie? posterboy 12-09-2000, 01:59 PM I become root and kill -9 pid but it doesn't die. What do I need to do here? It shows it is a Zombie, belonging to sendmail, and owned by a user. Ray ------------------ ray@raymondjones.net HTTP://www.raymondjones.net anti_seen 12-09-2000, 02:01 PM Damn, I though there was another George Ramero fan here heh. ------------------ Radio Shack, You've got questions... We've got blank stares. anti_seen 12-09-2000, 02:03 PM But actually you might look at "pstree" and see if another process has started it if so you might need to kill that one. ------------------ Radio Shack, You've got questions... We've got blank stares. posterboy 12-09-2000, 04:20 PM Yup, that's the issue, it was started as a fork from sendmail. I can HUP sendmail, but it still won't die. I am going to the back, looking for a dogwood tree, from which I will cut a stake and . . . . .. . . . . ------------------ ray@raymondjones.net HTTP://www.raymondjones.net posterboy 12-10-2000, 11:07 AM OK, i really do need help here. I kill off sendmail, completely, then try to kill the 2 remaining zombies, and nope, no way to do it. They just continue. What next, folks? Ray ------------------ ray@raymondjones.net HTTP://www.raymondjones.net Strike 12-10-2000, 02:40 PM AFAIK, zombies are so named because you simply can't kill them. If a SIGKILL (kill -9 or killall -KILL) doesn't work then nothing will. A_Lawn_GNOME 12-10-2000, 03:12 PM But isn't that the point of a Linux/UNIX design? You don't have to ask it to die, you just shoot em and they go away. Come on, where's the kernel command to write over memory and restart the affected hardware? nathaniel 12-11-2000, 01:02 AM hehe speaking about zombies- I created one as a newbie @ my first day of work @ an internet company(three years ago) and Saturday I checked the bsd box and low and behold it is still there pid 34531 http://www.linuxnewbie.org/ubb/wink.gif I brought it down to upgrade FreeBSD after I took a picture of the process. Strike 12-11-2000, 02:01 AM Actually, this (http://linuxfaq.quartz.net.nz/node106.html) is decently informative and concise. posterboy 12-11-2000, 06:38 AM Yes, it is, and thank you. However, it doesn't work here, on this case. The zombies were sendmail forks. I killed off sendmail, and that didn't help. I note that the zombies are using NO memory, and no resources from the CPU. I change drives each month, so I guess it's just gonna have to wait. Ray ------------------ ray@raymondjones.net HTTP://www.raymondjones.net justlinux.com
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