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Re: [LUG] Process that can't be killed

 

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)?



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