Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2005 22:24:26 -0800 (PST) From: spam maps <spamrefuse@yahoo.com> To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: User's cron job creates zombie process on 5.3 Message-ID: <20050121062426.71553.qmail@web54009.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <200501210230.j0L2TwpP050784@gw.catspoiler.org>
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--- Don Lewis <truckman@FreeBSD.org> wrote: > On 20 Jan, spam maps wrote: > > Peter Jeremy wrote: > > >> My guess is that your ssh process is holding open > >> file descriptors and the cron child process is > >> waiting for these descriptors to close before > >> wait()ing for the child. If this is true, then > >> you > >> should avoid it with something like: > >> ( /usr/bin/ssh -n -f ${tunnel} >/dev/null 2>&1 & ) > >> > > I suspect that the & to put ssh in the background > isn't necessary. You're right indeed, it also works without the &. Thanks, Rob. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
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