Some better options for displaying this information: very brief: pstree -p better: ps -aef --forest Gerry On Fri, 5 Apr 2002, Bob Tanner wrote: > 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. -- Gerry Skerbitz gsker at tcfreenet.org