Quoting Brady Hegberg (bradyh at bitstream.net): > 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>] Do a ps -ef and look for the PPID (parent process) and kill that, if it's not init. You can't kill them because they are already dead, thus the zombie nomer. -- Minneapolis St. Paul Twin Cities MN | Phone : (952)943-8700 http://www.mn-linux.org Minnesota Linux | Fax : (952)943-8500 Key fingerprint = 6C E9 51 4F D5 3E 4C 66 62 A9 10 E5 35 85 39 D9