Re: [K12OSN] zombie processes.

[Josh Levine <joshl levindustries com>]

John Baillie wrote:

> I am wondering how others deal with zombie processes. I used slay
> today to kill runaway processes for two users.
> http://www.linux.org/apps/AppId_211.html and it did the job in quick
> order.

This script works for me (it runs when the terminal loads):

http://m3.polymtl.ca/dagenais/pkg/cleantask.py

I call it from gdm/Init/Default (not sure what the equivalent would be
in XDM).

You can find more details about my setup at:

http://www.levindustries.com/xterm/

--Josh Levine