Actually, if you kill a process's parent, it should be inherited by
init, which will wait() for the process once it dies and make the zombie
``go away''.

You have some buggy programs which don't wait() for their children. Fix
them, or as a quick solution, kill the parent.

On Tue Apr 17 2001 at 13:48:44 -0500, Nigel Reed wrote:
> Reboot.
> 
> That's why they're zombies, you can't kill them. Make sure you don't
> kill a parent without killing its child first.
> 
> Regards Nigel
> 
> On Tue, Apr 17, 2001 at 11:13:53AM -0500, Douglas Egan wrote:
> > I find that after some time (1 or 2 days)  I get a couple of
> > 'zombie' processes.  How do you kill these and remove them from the
> > process list 'ps -aux'?   I tried 'kill -9 'pid'' but it just says
> > 'process not found'.
> > 
> > Not sure where they are coming from - possibly ssh or netscape.
> > 
> > thanks,
> > 
> > Doug Egan
> > 
> 
> -- 

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