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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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killall(1M)						  System Administration Commands					       killall(1M)

NAME
killall - kill all active processes SYNOPSIS
/usr/sbin/killall [signal] DESCRIPTION
killall is used by shutdown(1M) to kill all active processes not directly related to the shutdown procedure. killall terminates all processes with open files so that the mounted file systems will be unbusied and can be unmounted. killall sends signal (see kill(1)) to the active processes. If no signal is specified, a default of 15 is used. The killall command can be run only by the super-user. ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes: +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ | ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Availability |SUNWcsu | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ SEE ALSO
kill(1), ps(1), fuser(1M), shutdown(1M), signal(3C), attributes(5) SunOS 5.10 14 Sep 1992 killall(1M)
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