Why doesn't kill work?
Jeff Vian
jvian10 at charter.net
Mon Feb 21 16:04:29 UTC 2005
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
>
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