Re: pump doesn't really exit

2001-10-21 Thread Raghavendra Bhat
[Sun, Oct 21, 2001 at 02:38:46AM -0400] Shaya: > while the parent eventually quits (when I get the IP) the child keeps > on pumping away Do a 'ps auwx' and see whether the parent process has become a zombie process. Is the child process still active ? It would be better if you switch to 'dh

pump doesn't really exit

2001-10-21 Thread Shaya Potter
I seem to have a problem with pump On my laptop, when ever I pump an IP, it seems to fork a child process, and while the parent eventually quits (when I get the IP) the child keeps on pumping away, eventually causing me to loose the IP (as it seems to either confuse the DHCP server, or it just doe