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How to kill a Zombie?
Authored by: Lanir on Dec 14, '02 06:28:47AM
I don't have a zombie process to try this on. But... here's the deal. Kill has several flags you can use. I just explained this earlier, but just in case... The most commonly useful of these are like so:

kill -HUP # Used to hangup. Does not necessarily stop the program from
# running. Very useful to tell a daemon process to look at
# it's config file again.

kill # No flags. Just tells it to clean up it's stuff and leave.
# Analogous to an eviction notice.

kill -KILL # Tells the system to actively kill it, not just politely
# tell it to leave. Analogous to the eviction notice above,
# combined with "... and I'll be back in a minute with my
# shotgun so you better be gone!"

kill 1 # Go into single user mode without rebooting. The system
# should start up again right after you type exit in
# the shell. Basically keeps the system stuff intact while
# cleaning house on all user processes. Should disable
# networking as well but I haven't checked.

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