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To: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com>
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Subject: Re: Jobs dying in 'E' 
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In message <20041214194010.GD37432@dan.emsphone.com>, Dan Nelson writes:
>In the last episode (Dec 14), David Gilbert said:
>> I cvsup'd to current this morning and many jobs are dying in the 'E'
>> state.  Any idea what is causing this?
>
>man ps:
>
>               E       The process is trying to exit.
>
>Usually caused by queued up data on a tty not being flushed because
>someone has hit ^S.

This may be my fault, I'm testing a patch right now.

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