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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Help! Zombies Post 302859607 by Corona688 on Thursday 3rd of October 2013 12:21:55 PM
Old 10-03-2013
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Originally Posted by blackrageous
Contrary to popular belief you can't always kill a zombie...even if you cut it's head off (kill, kill -9).
Without more detail, this sounds spurious.

One, single zombie isn't something I'd necessarily be alarmed about, though. It's when they accumulate that something's gone wrong.
 

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KILL(1) 						      General Commands Manual							   KILL(1)

NAME
kill, broke - print commands to kill processes SYNOPSIS
kill name broke DESCRIPTION
Kill prints commands that will cause all processes called name and owned by the current user to be terminated. Use the send command of 81/2(1), or pipe the output of kill into rc(1) to execute the commands. Kill suggests sending a kill note to the process; the same message delivered to the process's ctl file (see proc(3)) is a surer, if heavy handed, kill, but is necessary if the offending process is ignoring notes. Broke prints commands that will cause all processes in the Broken state and owned by the current user to go away. When a process dies because of an error caught by the system, it may linger in the Broken state to allow examination with a debugger. Executing the commands printed by broke lets the system reclaim the resources used by the broken processes. SOURCE
/rc/bin/kill /rc/bin/broke SEE ALSO
ps(1), stop(1), proc(3) KILL(1)
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