Date: Thu, 22 May 2003 10:49:12 -0500 From: "Jack L. Stone" <jackstone@sage-one.net> To: "Jason Lieurance" <jason@vipersystems.biz>, <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Zombie Process Message-ID: <3.0.5.32.20030522104912.0137cb88@sage-one.net> In-Reply-To: <4306.192.168.1.155.1053612014.squirrel@vipersystems.biz>
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At 10:00 AM 5.22.2003 -0400, Jason Lieurance wrote: >Hello, > >Here's a brief summary of my system: > >FreeBSD 4.7 >PHP 4.3.0 >Qmail 1.3 >vmailmgr >courier-imap >daemontools > >Anyway, I have this zombie process that's related to daemontools but I >don't know how to get rid of it. > >example: > >root 632 440 p0 I 9:40AM 0:00.00 /bin/sh /command/svscanboot >root 456 p0 S 9:40AM 0:00.01 svscan /service >root 872 288 p0 S 9:40AM 0:00.03 readproctitle service errors: >root 884 380 p0 S 9:40AM 0:00.14 supervise supervise >root 0 0 p0 Z 9:43AM 0:00.00 (supervise) > >svscanboot reads: > >#!/bin/sh ># WARNING: This file was auto-generated. Do not edit! > >PATH=/command:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin: /usr/X11R6/bin > >exec </dev/null >exec >/dev/null >exec 2>/dev/null > >/command/svc -dx /service/* /service/*/log > >env - PATH=$PATH svscan /service 2>&1 | \ >env - PATH=$PATH readproctitle service errors: ......... > > >Any help or insight would be great, thanks in advance. > >-- >Jason > As long as the zombie is not using any resources (because it's dead), not to worry -- and, you can't kill it because it is already dead. If it bothers you, you can kill/restart the daemon, but most likely another zombie will reappear shortly after. Best regards, Jack L. Stone, Administrator SageOne Net http://www.sage-one.net jackstone@sage-one.net
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