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Old 09-01-2008
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When kill [pid] does not work...
Hi,

On my Linux machine, using Bash, I sometimes run into a situation where doing the following does not seem to work at all.

Code:
kermit@fastbox ~ $ ps -A | grep firefox-bin
 5375 ?        00:06:57 firefox-bin <defunct>
 5624 ?        00:00:00 firefox-bin
kermit@fastbox ~ $ kill 5624
kermit@fastbox ~ $ ps -A | grep firefox-bin
 5375 ?        00:06:57 firefox-bin <defunct>
 5624 ?        00:00:00 firefox-bin
kermit@fastbox ~ $
Why is kill not killing the process?