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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