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SubjectRe: Unkillable process under 2.1.131
On Mon, Dec 07, 1998 at 10:02:18AM -0500, Michael K Vance wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have an unkillable process. 'ps au':
>
> root 221 0.0 0.0 0 0 1 Z 08:38 0:00 (xscreensaver
> <zombie>)
>
> Attempts to 'kill 221' and 'kill -9 221' have failed. Am I missing something
> here?

You don't kill a zombie process. Try to kill its parent process.

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