Killing zombie processes

Kill those persistent and annoying zombie processes.


ps -e -o ppid,stat | grep Z | cut -d" " -f2 | xargs kill -9

Tested on Fedora for accuracy.  

Remove old files

If you don't use logrotate to remove or archive old logs, here is a way to remove old logs using the -ctime directive within the bash command find.

/usr/bin/find /var/log/tomcat -name *.tgz -ctime +15 | xargs rm -rf