Mhhh, it is not halloween, and i’m not a sadist.
When you see things like this on a “ps -ef”:
root 29988 29973 0 17:13 pts/1 00:00:00 <defunct>
You can kill them on solaris >=9 with the command “preap”
So in this example you would issue:
# preap 29988
And it will be dead. Note this only works in solaris 