On Sun, 2005-02-20 at 20:38 -0700, James McKenzie wrote: > Jesus M. Rodriguez wrote: > > Try kill -9 <pid> sometimes kill doesn't work. When in doubt -9 it :) > > Works everytime. CTRL+Z simply puts it into the background. > > I try in order: > > kill <pid> > kill -2 <pid> > kill -15 <pid> > kill -9 <pid> > > However this would not kill a DEFUNCT process. Anyone got an idea on > how to do this? AFAIK a defunct (zombied) process cannot be killed. It can only be removed from the process table by rebooting. > -- > James McKenzie > With assistance, Now running 2.6.11rc3, Software Suspend 2 > and ibm-acpi .1 > Need a home for my .rpm >
