can't kill crashed processes

[Benjamin Hornberger <bho gmx net>]

Hi all,

I have the problem that I can't kill certain frozen processes on RHEL AS 3. 
Somehow, up2date crashes each time when I try to run it from a Win XP 
machine tunneled through SSH (with Exceed running), and now I have three of 
these processes around.

[root host root]# ps -ef | grep up2date
root      3178     1  0 09:33 ?        00:00:05 /usr/bin/python -u 
/usr/sbin/up2date
root      3366     1  0 09:44 ?        00:00:05 /usr/bin/python -u 
/usr/sbin/up2date
root      6851     1  5 13:43 ?        00:00:05 /usr/bin/python -u 
/usr/sbin/up2date
root      6918  6871  0 13:45 pts/3    00:00:00 grep up2date
[root host root]# kill -9 3178
[root host root]# ps -ef | grep up2date
root      3178     1  0 09:33 ?        00:00:05 /usr/bin/python -u 
/usr/sbin/up2date
root      3366     1  0 09:44 ?        00:00:05 /usr/bin/python -u 
/usr/sbin/up2date
root      6851     1  4 13:43 ?        00:00:05 /usr/bin/python -u 
/usr/sbin/up2date
root      6920  6871  0 13:45 pts/3    00:00:00 grep up2date
[root host root]# kill -9 3366
[root host root]# ps -ef | grep up2date
root      3178     1  0 09:33 ?        00:00:05 /usr/bin/python -u 
/usr/sbin/up2date
root      3366     1  0 09:44 ?        00:00:05 /usr/bin/python -u 
/usr/sbin/up2date
root      6851     1  4 13:43 ?        00:00:05 /usr/bin/python -u 
/usr/sbin/up2date
root      6922  6871  0 13:45 pts/3    00:00:00 grep up2date
[root host root]#

Thanks for any hints,

Benjamin