zombies when running swatch via start-stop-daemon --chuid

2007-01-20 Thread Matt Miller
ng the '--chuid' option of start-stop-daemon so that I can run as a unprivileged user, and if I take that option away then I don't get the zombies. In my swatch configuration I'm doing an 'exec' action, so maybe that's part of the problem. If the problem is the &#x

lots of zombies with Mozilla, MozillaFirebird or psi

2004-01-29 Thread Roman Joost
I had lots of Zombie processes lastly on my debian sid box and can't find the problem. Does somebody run into similar problems with wrong preferences or something? The following programs causing zombie processes: Mozilla: 1.6-1 PSI: 0.9-2 MozillaFirebird (Nightly Build): Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux

normal that with kernel 2.4.20 i ahve lots of zombies??

2002-12-14 Thread Bruno Boettcher
Hello! i jsut rebootet my machine with a standard 2.4.20-k7 and now i have ltos of programs that crash and are unremovable since definitely zombified what's going wrong here? -- ciao bboett == [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://inforezo.u-st

Help! - ppp zombies

2001-02-03 Thread Lindsay Allen
~ Hello world, Of late I'm getting spurious ppp entries shown by ifconfig. It happens when a modem goes down. It might have been ppp3 but it comes up again as pppx, where x is the next unused number and ppp3 becomes a zombie. Right now I have two "zombies", shown here with a val

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 exit

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 paren

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. > > zom

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

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

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 n

zombies

2000-05-29 Thread Sven Burgener
Hi all 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. Any pointers / references appreciated. TIA Sven

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

Zombies

1999-03-26 Thread Chris Brown
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 wouldn't touch them. I finally rebooted. Can someone explain what a zo

AMD K5, Netscape, netstat & zombies

1998-03-30 Thread Niccolo Rigacci
I got some problem running Netscape 3.04 after I recompiled the kernel. Simply Netscape hangs waiting for a netstat process which becomes zombie. Searching on the net I found this message that was the answer: > From "Lev Babiev" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > I have K5-100, and when I compiled

Re: Problem with Netscape making zombies!

1997-04-07 Thread Karl M. Hegbloom
I had a line in my ~/.bash_profile like this: export PATH=".:~/programs/bin:"$PATH":/sbin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/sbin" ... hashing it out fixed the netscape problem. It also runs from the fvwm2 menu now, since I added: export PATH=/usr/local/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:~/bin ... to my ~/.

Re: Problem with Netscape making zombies!

1997-04-07 Thread Karl M. Hegbloom
> "Tick" == The Tick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Tick> Hello Debian Users List!, I seem to be having problems with Tick> Netscape 3.01 spawning zombie 'netstat' processes, and thus Tick> hanging. I was wondering if anybody knows a fix for this. Tick> The only cause I can think

Problem with Netscape making zombies!

1997-04-07 Thread The Tick
Hello Debian Users List!, I seem to be having problems with Netscape 3.01 spawning zombie 'netstat' processes, and thus hanging. I was wondering if anybody knows a fix for this. The only cause I can think of for this is that the Netscape coders forgot to do a 'wait' in the parent process

exmh suddenly spawns zombies

1996-10-11 Thread Susan G. Kleinmann
Suddenly exmh seems to be producing zombie processes whenever I try to reply to a message. Of course, I'm not able to make the reply. Specifically, when I click on the Reply button (then on Reply to sender), exmh shows this message: Starting ASYNC exmh-async xterm -e vi ... But exmh doesn't s

runq zombies

1996-08-17 Thread Joey Hess
My system's been running for about a week. I've started to notice lots of runq zombies (from smail, I guess): FLAGS UID PID PPID PRI NI SIZE RSS WCHAN STA TTY TIME COMMAND 100040 0 10843 1 0 0 106848 11543d S ? 0:00 (runq) 100040 0 11188