Can't kill a process

[Mike McCarty]

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.

Mike
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