how to kill this process?

[Erik Christiansen]

On Wed, May 03, 2006 at 12:39:25PM +0100, R Kimber wrote:
> On Wed, 3 May 2006 10:56:39 +1000
> erik at dd.nec.com.au (Erik Christiansen) wrote:
> 
> > Does something like this help?
> > 
> > http://www.faqs.org/faqs/unix-faq/faq/part3/section-13.html
> 
> Thanks, but it wasn't marked as a zombie by ps, and in any event the
> faq is somewhat beyond my level of expertise and seems geared to
> developers.

OK, is it possible that the process has a deliberate signal handler, so
that SIGKILL is ignored? (Even a script can trap any combination of
signals, and decide not to die, if written that way.)

Anyway, whatever it has stuffed in its ears, it's evidently saying "I
can't hear you." :-)

Yep, there are probably gentler documents on the subject. Sorry.

Erik