Process will not die!

[dmxrob]

I am having trouble killing a process and cannot figure out why. Here is the situation from the command line:

pride1:/home# killall -v host
Killed host(22909) with signal 15
Killed host(22910) with signal 15
Killed host(22911) with signal 15
Killed host(22912) with signal 15
Killed host(22913) with signal 15
pride1:/home# ps -Chost
PID TTY TIME CMD
22909 ? 00:00:00 host
22910 ? 00:00:00 host
22911 ? 00:00:00 host <defunct>
22912 ? 00:00:00 host <defunct>
22913 ? 00:00:00 host <defunct>

I am not even really sure how all these host processes got started, but no matter what I try they will not die.

Any suggestions?

Rob

[BlackNet]

Hello,

Sounds like a zombie process, try to kill the parent and if that doesn't work reboot.

Ed

[knightfoo]

If you run "pstree -lp" you should be able to find what process is spawning the zombie host processes. If you kill or restart the parent then all of the zombies should go away.

-knightfoo