Killing process

Hi
I have this process, that came out of no where
nobody 24298 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Z Dec18 0:00 [sendmail <defunct>]

I can't seem to kil lit
I run killall -9 sendmail
it is still there no matter what

kill -9 #PID
still same thing
/etc/rc.d/init.d/sendmail stop

same thing
cd /usr/sbin/
mv sendmail badmail
killall -9 sendmail
ps -ef | grep sendmail

SAME thing

this is confusing
What can i do? other than reboot

 

 

 

 

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