if it has a parent task other than 1, you can try killing the parent task. otherwise, if it won't respond to kill -9, then you can either wait it out or reboot. Hugh On Mon, 2003-05-05 at 09:14, Stephen Queen wrote: > I keep getting processes running that _kill -9 XXXX_ won't kill. How do > I get rid of these without rebooting? > > Steve >