how to kill a process that is "defunct"?

[Jeff G.]

On 11/21/2010 04:02 AM, Tha.Suresh wrote:
>> Is there a way to kill that process?
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> $ killall -9 transmission
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Tha, man pages don't show the -9 option - where did that come from?
Doesn't work for Thunderbird (as a test).

Thanks

jg