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.


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Gerry Skerbitz
gsker at tcfreenet.org