[SunHELP] can't kill it!

Nicholas Dronen sunhelp at sunhelp.org
Thu Feb 1 15:13:39 CST 2001


On Thu, Feb 01, 2001 at 03:51:34PM -0500, Rob Staab wrote:
> You have what is known as a zombie process. It's parent has died and has not
> properly passed signally control to it's child. I've seen some people be
> able to dicker with the /proc filesystem to rid themselves of this, but
> other than a reboot, there's no guarenteed what to kill it.

The ps output he posted didn't look like a zombie process. 
They usually show up as '<zombie>' (or something similar --
I forget exactly how it look on Solaris).

Regards,

Nick Dronen



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