Mike McCarty wrote: > Ed Greshko wrote: >> Simon Slater wrote: >> >>> A quick question for someone: a process running as root can't be >>> killed >>> by kill PID. How do I kill it? >> >> >> Do a "ps PID".... If the STAT shows "Z" it means the process is a >> zombie. >> And, as we all know, you can't kill a zombie. :-) > > That's because it's already dead. Just nowhere to send > the death signal. I wouldn't quite say it that way. There is a place to send the signal, the PID, it is just that the process isn't listening. It is waiting on something.
