after booting a CentOS 4.2 system I have a bunch of zombies... root 2828 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Z 14:41 0:00 [chvt] <defunct> My read from googling this is chvt stems from something that involves a shell. They ***may*** have been created from my attempts to start mysqld which isn't working (I will start another thread) but no efforts to kill them off are working... [root at srv1 certs]# kill 2828 [root at srv1 certs]# kill -9 2828 [root at srv1 certs]# ps aux|grep 2828 root 2828 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Z 14:41 0:00 [chvt] <defunct> How do I clean this up? Craig