Re: zombies

2000-05-29 Thread kmself
On Mon, May 29, 2000 at 09:40:21PM +0200, Oswald Buddenhagen wrote: > > that's wrong ... > > if the parent process would exit, then it's children would be inherited by > > init, which would make a wait() upon the sigchld it will receive, when the > > child exits. > > long-time zombies typically in

Re: zombies

2000-05-29 Thread Bolan Meek
Oswald Buddenhagen wrote: > > > > Today I noticed the following: ... > > > Under which circumstances does a process turn into a zombie? I assume > > > this applies to UNIX in general. > > > > zombies are what is left from child processes when the parents thereof > > do not wait() for them, but ex

Re: zombies

2000-05-29 Thread Bolan Meek
Bolan Meek wrote: > > Sven Burgener wrote: > ... > > Today I noticed the following: > > > > 15444 ? Z0:00 (cron ) > > > > Under which circumstances does a process turn into a zombie? I assume > > this applies to UNIX in general. > > zombies are what is left from child processes when the pa

Re: zombies

2000-05-29 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
> > > Today I noticed the following: > > > > > > 15444 ? Z0:00 (cron ) > > > > > > Under which circumstances does a process turn into a zombie? I assume > > > this applies to UNIX in general. > > > > zombies are what is left from child processes when the parents thereof > > do not wait() f

Re: zombies

2000-05-29 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
> > Today I noticed the following: > > > > 15444 ? Z0:00 (cron ) > > > > Under which circumstances does a process turn into a zombie? I assume > > this applies to UNIX in general. > > zombies are what is left from child processes when the parents thereof > do not wait() for them, but exit(

Re: zombies

2000-05-29 Thread Bolan Meek
Sven Burgener wrote: ... > Today I noticed the following: > > 15444 ? Z0:00 (cron ) > > Under which circumstances does a process turn into a zombie? I assume > this applies to UNIX in general. zombies are what is left from child processes when the parents thereof do not wait() for them, b

Re: Zombies

1999-03-28 Thread Jiri Baum
Hello, Chris Brown: > kill pid# did not work. Somewhere along the way the jobs attained the > "zombie" status, and kill wouldn't touch them. I finally rebooted. > > Can someone explain what a zombie is and how to kill it? The idea is that when a process dies, gets killed or just exits, its paren

Re: Zombies

1999-03-28 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Fri, Mar 26, 1999 at 09:40:54PM -0800, Joey Hess wrote: > Kent West wrote: > > Mine looks okay; well, other than it being a man page and I find most man > > pages > > ugly to begin with, but only because I speak English instead of Developer > > :) > > Have to agree with Brandon, it's complet

Re: Zombies

1999-03-27 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
Package: procps Version: 1:1.9.0-2 Severity: wishlist On Fri, Mar 26, 1999 at 10:58:10PM -0600, Kent West wrote: > > BTW, has anyone else noticed that the manpage for ps(1) is uglier than sin? > > Whose idea of nroff formatting is that? > > Mine looks okay; well, other than it being a man page a

Re: Can't send-prohibited by Administrator (was Re: Zombies)

1999-03-27 Thread Kent West
George Bonser wrote: > > BTW, what does /var/log/exim/rejectlog give as a reason for rejecting the > message? > > Support THING! (THing Is Not GNU). http://shorelink.com/~grep/THING.html 1999-03-26 22:57:34 refused relay (host reject) to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> from <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> H=westk03 (ni

RE: Can't send-prohibited by Administrator (was Re: Zombies)

1999-03-27 Thread Pollywog
On 27-Mar-99 George Bonser wrote: > On Sat, 27 Mar 1999, Pollywog wrote: > >> Are you using Exim? > > He must be, Adminstrative Prohibition is the standard Exim wave off > message. > > George Bonser > > Support The THING -- http://shorelink.com/~grep/THING.html > I had the same problem with N

RE: Can't send-prohibited by Administrator (was Re: Zombies)

1999-03-27 Thread Pollywog
On 27-Mar-99 Kent West wrote: > Kent West wrote: >> Okay- new question. When I tried to send this message I got an error from >> Netscape Messenger saying that I couldn't send it to Branden because the >> Administrator had prohibited it. AFAIK, "I" am the Administrator, and I >> don't >> recall ev

Re: Zombies

1999-03-27 Thread Joey Hess
Kent West wrote: > Mine looks okay; well, other than it being a man page and I find most man > pages > ugly to begin with, but only because I speak English instead of Developer :) Have to agree with Brandon, it's completly broken. There _is_ no nroff formatting, they took a preformatted text fil

Can't send-prohibited by Administrator (was Re: Zombies)

1999-03-27 Thread Kent West
Kent West wrote: > Okay- new question. When I tried to send this message I got an error from > Netscape Messenger saying that I couldn't send it to Branden because the > Administrator had prohibited it. AFAIK, "I" am the Administrator, and I don't > recall ever prohibiting sending mail to anyone or

Re: Zombies

1999-03-27 Thread Kent West
> BTW, has anyone else noticed that the manpage for ps(1) is uglier than sin? > Whose idea of nroff formatting is that? Mine looks okay; well, other than it being a man page and I find most man pages ugly to begin with, but only because I speak English instead of Developer :) (why don't they ever

Re: Zombies

1999-03-26 Thread Branden Robinson
On Fri, Mar 26, 1999 at 01:21:49PM -0500, Chris Brown wrote: > I had a few cpio scripts running in background, noticed an error with > one of my scripts (it was recursive) and tried to stop it. > > kill pid# did not work. Somewhere along the way the jobs attained the > "zombie" status, and kill