Trying to kill a process that just won't die...

[Rick Stevens]

Gregory Gulik wrote:
> 
> It does spawn a script that runs "gzip -1"
> That process is no longer around.
> 
> I've looked for any child or parent processes but those have been 
> killed, it's just this stubborn process that just won't go away.

The dread "zombie" process.  Attach to it using gdb, then "kill"
followed by "quit".  This should kill it off.  If not, the only way to
get rid of zombies is to reboot or have the "magic elixir".
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