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Martijn Grooten wrote: > On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 7:10 PM, Simon Waters wrote: >> How did you try and kill it? >> >> "As root" shouldn't make any difference the owner should be able to kill it. >> >> Try sending a SIGKILL (kill -9). > > I did that, didn't work. The process is not listed as a zombie and its > parent process is init. Quite weird and somewhat annoying too. The > machine is a mail server; currently in a development stage, so a > reboot won't hurt at the moment, but it shouldn't really happen when > it's live. What state is it is (ps -eo pid,stat,comm)? -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html