Try 'ps auxf' to see if they are the kids of another process - and kill that one. On Friday 7805 April 2002 01:07 pm, you wrote: > I've got hundreds of these bogging down my machine: > > bradyh 28812 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Z Mar22 0:00 [sh > <defunct>] bradyh 28813 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Z Mar22 0:00 > [sh <defunct>] bradyh 28814 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Z Mar22 > 0:00 [sh <defunct>] bradyh 28815 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Z Mar22 > 0:00 [sh <defunct>] bradyh 28816 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Z > Mar22 0:00 [sh <defunct>] bradyh 28817 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Z > Mar22 0:00 [sh <defunct>] bradyh 28818 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? > Z Mar22 0:00 [sh <defunct>] ... > > Is there any way to get rid of them aside from rebooting? No form of kill > seems to work on them. > > Thanks, > Brady > > _______________________________________________ > Twin Cities Linux Users Group Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, > Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list