On Fri, 8 Aug 2003 11:35:58 -0700 (PDT), Jonathan Bartlett wrote
> > Uhm, does not look like I made your day ....
>
> No, I was complaining about Sun Support employees not knowoing about
> Zombie processes. It's not something that's focused on in books, but
> someone who works support at Sun should know better.
>
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# ps aux | grep 27440
> > root 27440 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Z 07:38 0:00
> > [linksysmon-watc <defunct>]
>
> ps -ef showns parents (PPID column), and ps afx shows it in an actual
> process tree.
>
> > I now understand why it cannot be killed since it is already dead.
> >
> > Just for education purposes; however, how do I find the zombie's parent
> > processes to kill them?
Thank you kindly, it has been a very useful education.
28538 ? S 0:03 /usr/bin/perl /usr/sbin/linksysmon
28539 ? S 0:00 \_ sh -c /usr/sbin/snmptrapd -C -P -F "%A
%y-%02.2m-%02.2l %02.2h:%02.2j:%02.2k %v\n" 2>&1 1>/28540 ? S 0:32
| \_ /usr/sbin/snmptrapd -C -P -F %A %y-%02.2m-%02.2l %02.2h:%02.2j:%02.2k %v\n
27440 ? Z 0:00 \_ [linksysmon-watc <defunct>]
[EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# service linksysmon restart
Stopping linksysmon
Starting linksysmon
30223 pts/1 S 0:00 /usr/bin/perl /usr/sbin/linksysmon
30224 pts/1 S 0:00 \_ sh -c /usr/sbin/snmptrapd -C -P -F "%A
%y-%02.2m-%02.2l %02.2h:%02.2j:%02.2k %v\n" 2>&1 1>/30225 pts/1 S 0:00
\_ /usr/sbin/snmptrapd -C -P -F %A %y-%02.2m-%02.2l %02.2h:%02.2j:%02.2k %v\n
My, that was easy ....
Now I can watch to see if a linksysmon-watch call results in a zombie.
Wow!
Thanks.
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