> On Thursday 11 March 2004 1:06 pm, you wrote:
>> > If you did a 'ps -ef', it would show that bash was started by an xterm,
>> > which in turn was started by the window manager:
>
> ...but for zombified processes, they are now owned by process "1" (init), and
> I can't kill that parent. Here's my ps -f output
>
> ericlinuxbox1:~ # ps -f 2230
> UID PID PPID C STIME TTY STAT TIME CMD
> root 2230 1 10:53 tty5 S 0:00 /sbin/mingetty tty5
>
> Sow do you kill this process (PID 2230)? It keep coming back after restarting
> the computer also, which means the daemon is restarting it???, but why not
> show the daemon is the parent? Confused...
I must have missed your original problem. getty's are configured through the
/etc/inittab file. They automatically respawn and you'll need to edit inittab
to add or delete them.
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