[plug] defunct process won't die

[Steve Grasso]

On Wed, 09 Aug 2000, David Griffiths wrote:
> I'm having trouble killing a couple of netscape processes after a netscape
> 4.51 crashed on me.
> 
>    # ps ax|grep netsca
> 
>    21989 ?        DW     0:24 [netscape-commun]
>    21999 ?        Z      0:00 [netscape-commun <defunct>]
> 
> All the things that usually work for me have no effect on these pids (kill
> -9 etc) and one seems to be taking up some cpu time. (Netscape app not
> running at this point.)


kill -9 ` ps -aef|grep glibc20 |awk '{ print $2 }'` 2>/dev/null

works for me with runaway Netscapes.

Regards,
Steve