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тАО04-03-2008 09:19 AM
тАО04-03-2008 09:19 AM
Killing root orphan
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тАО04-03-2008 09:27 AM
тАО04-03-2008 09:27 AM
Re: Killing root orphan
Pete
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тАО04-03-2008 08:36 PM
тАО04-03-2008 08:36 PM
Re: Killing root orphan
What do you mean by orphans? Did you mean zombies?
>Pete: A true orphan's parent is init and the only way to kill an orphan is to kill it's parent.
I think you are confusing orphans adopted by init and zombies.
Orphans adopted by init may be killed. If they don't die with kill -9, you have to reboot.
Zombies can be killed by killing the zombie master. Of course you have to judge which is worth more, the zombie master or your piece of mind? :-)
init is never a zombie master, part of it's job is to kill any adopted zombies. It's a zombie slayer.
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тАО04-03-2008 09:06 PM
тАО04-03-2008 09:06 PM
Re: Killing root orphan
If the parent process is anything other than init, you could try killing it. This would let the children rest in peace.
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тАО04-03-2008 09:53 PM
тАО04-03-2008 09:53 PM
Re: Killing root orphan
Didn't I say that? ;-)
Their parent can't be init and you can't kill init anyway.
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тАО04-03-2008 10:14 PM
тАО04-03-2008 10:14 PM
Re: Killing root orphan
Also, I think there is no harm reiterating the fact! ;)
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тАО04-04-2008 08:11 AM
тАО04-04-2008 08:11 AM
Re: Killing root orphan
root pts/1 Feb 14 08:16 old 19697 dell37037.net1.fnsb:0.0
root pts/0 Feb 14 08:16 old 19698 dell37037.net1.fnsb:0.0
So, my question is how can I kill them without rebooting my server?
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тАО04-04-2008 08:24 AM
тАО04-04-2008 08:24 AM
Re: Killing root orphan
Pete
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тАО04-04-2008 09:25 AM
тАО04-04-2008 09:25 AM
Re: Killing root orphan
root 8694 17609 0 09:20:04 pts/tM 0:00 grep 19697
root: /G_sharedfiles ==> ps -ef|grep 19698
root 8706 17609 1 09:20:17 pts/tM 0:00 grep 19698
root: /G_sharedfiles ==>
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тАО04-04-2008 10:43 AM
тАО04-04-2008 10:43 AM
Re: Killing root orphan
It appears that your 'who' output is what is actually messed up.