SUMMARY: kill -9 is NOT working for 'defunc' process!!

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My QUESTION WAS
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i managers,

I'm trying to kill 'defunc' process,by giving a signal 9 but it
fails!!
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# ps -ef|egrep 'PPID|defunc'
     UID   PID  PPID  C    STIME TTY      TIME CMD
  dilipm 28691     1  0                   0:00 <defunct>
    root 28582 28388  0 12:11:10 pts/10   0:00 egrep PPID|defunc
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# kill -9 28691
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# ps -ef|egrep 'PPID|defunc'
     UID   PID  PPID  C    STIME TTY      TIME CMD
  dilipm 28691     1  0                   0:00 <defunct>
    root 28586 28388  0 12:11:50 pts/10   0:00 egrep PPID|defunc
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ANSWER  +
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As all suggested we have to kill -09 <defunc-PPID> (Parent Pid) to get rid of
defunc process.
As we see here the PPID is '1' , that is non other than init process,we have to
kill init.that in turn makes system reboot :((

Not advisable to do this on Production box.As all said,there is no big problem
with a few defunct processes as they only use a small amount of system resources.

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