trace state

[SIMSN%NUSDISCS.BITNET at cunyvm.cuny.edu]

  F S   UID   PID  PPID  C PRI NI     ADDR    SZ   WCHAN  TTY      TIME COMD
 10 Z   103  8241 16595  0  15 20                                0:00 <defunct>
 10 Z   103 16507 16595  0  60 20                                0:00 <defunct>
 10 T   103 16595     1  0  25 30 10437000    35          xta004   0:00 sh
 10 Z   103 12508 16595  0  15 20                                0:00 <defunct>
 10 T   103 16640     1  0  70 30 10e9c800    35          xta003   0:00 sh
 10 T   103   276 16595  0  70 30 10f64800    35          ?        0:00 sh
 18 S   103 20872 16874  0  25 20 109d6800    34 40260e3c ttya26   0:00 layers
 10 S   103  4521 20872  0  25 20 10573000   194 10276000 xta013   0:03 ksh
 10 S   103 25009 20872  0  25 20 10c1b000   192 10403200 xta012   0:01 ksh
 18 S   103 25055  4521 13  25 20 109d7000    45 40260e44 xta013   0:01 ps
 10 S   103 16874     1  0  25 20 10892800    66 10e2dd00 ttya26   0:04 ksh

 Can anyone tell me how the above processes in T state can be killed?
 I've used kill -9 but doesn't work. Does the fact that their priority
 has been lowered to 30 prevents me from killing my own process?

 Are these similar to the "zombie process"? We're running Sys V.

 Thanks.


> Sim Ser Ngarn (Jnet%"SIMSN at NUSDISCS")
> National University of Singapore
> Department of Information Systems and Computer Science