Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2005 11:27:35 -0800 From: Darryl Okahata <darrylo@soco.agilent.com> To: Raymond Wiker <Raymond.Wiker@fast.no> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: User's cron job creates zombie process on 5.3 Message-ID: <200501191927.LAA07487@mina.soco.agilent.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 19 Jan 2005 16:47:10 %2B0100." <16878.33022.866459.717977@raw.grenland.fast.no>
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Raymond Wiker <Raymond.Wiker@fast.no> wrote:
> Hmm... Maybe this will work?
>
> /bin/sh -c "/usr/bin/ssh -n -f ${tunnel} &"
>
> --- the effect of this should (hopefully) be that init becomes the
> parent of the zombie process.
An easier-to-read way, assuming that a Bourne-compatible shell is
used (e.g., /bin/sh and not /bin/csh), would be:
( /usr/bin/ssh -n -f ${tunnel} & )
--
Darryl Okahata
darrylo@soco.agilent.com
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