Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cornell!uw-beaver!rice!sun-spots-request From: ultra!ted@ames.arc.nasa.gov (Ted Schroeder) Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun Subject: Re: Help : cannot be killed Message-ID: <8901201938.AA09663@bottom.ultra.com> Date: 31 Jan 89 16:03:39 GMT Sender: usenet@rice.edu Organization: Sun-Spots Lines: 15 Approved: Sun-Spots@rice.edu Original-Date: Fri, 20 Jan 89 11:38:16 PST X-Sun-Spots-Digest: Volume 7, Issue 129, message 6 of 10 > Try killing the process's parent....--wnl Of course, if the parent process was a daemon as so often happens with zombie tasks, you'll have to reboot to get rid of them. Ted Schroeder ted@Ultra.com Ultra Network Technologies ...!ames!ultra!ted 101 Daggett Drive San Jose, CA 95134 408-922-0100 [[ Thinking about it, my suggestion was not very useful. In most cases, if an exiting process is lingering around for any length of time, it is very likely because the process got hung up trying to flush an input or output buffer for one of its open files (such as an open pseudo-terminal). There's no way to get rid of those except to reboot the machine. --wnl ]]