Pkill -f doesn't work for process killing

Question

I have this process running:

342 pts/2    T    0:00 sh -c sudo screen /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/btdownloadcurses \"http://zoink.it/torrent/732A4A9B54B7E3A916C2835         


        

Answer 1

If you have that zombie process open in a terminal, you can Ctrl+z it, which on most shells lets the process run in the background and outputs something like:

[1]  + 69880 suspended  someprocess

You can then actually kill it with:

kill -9 69880

the same id that was shown when suspended.