If they're owned by root, you must reboot.

;)

If they are owned by another user, and you've been living right, you may be
able to su to that user (or login as that user) and do a
kill -9 -1

Please note that this will kill all processes associated with the user you
are at that time, so DO NOT DO THIS AS root or your box WILL go down.

Jamie

---------------------------------------------
James A. (Jamie) Dennis
<email@removed>

"Take one and pass it on"

>From: "Starkey, Neil via ibm-aix-l" <ibm-aix-l@OpenITx.com>

>Reply-To: ibm-aix-l@OpenITx.com
>To: James Dennis <email@removed>
>Subject: [ibm-aix-l] RE: Cannot Kill Process
>Date: Tue, 7 Jan 2003 07:21:02 -0000
>
>Archive Page - http://unix.ittoolbox.com/groups/groups.asp?v=ibm-aix-l
>The only way I know of getting rid of 'defunct' processes is to reboot,
>unfortunately.
>
>Cheers,
>Neil
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Rick D'Arcy via ibm-aix-l [mailto:ibm-aix-l@OpenITx.com]
>Sent: 07 January 2003 00:05
>To: <email@removed> Starkey, Neil
>Subject: [ibm-aix-l] Cannot Kill Process
>
>
>Archive Page - http://unix.ittoolbox.com/groups/groups.asp?v=ibm-aix-l
>Hi,
>
>I have 2 processes that I cannot kill. One is defunct and the other shows
>up as " [ ] " when I run "ps -ef". I have tried to kill the PID & PPID for
>both of these and have had no success.
>
>Thanks in advance for any & all assistance!
>
>Cheers,
>
>
>Richard (Rick) D'Arcy Office: Fleck Hall 110A
>RISC Lab Manager
>School of Natural Sciences Voice: 512.428.1374
>St. Edward's University Fax: 512.448.8764
>3001 S. Congress Ave. http://www.cs.stedwards.edu