Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2006 00:20:52 GMT From: Arjan van der Velde <a.vandervelde@xs4all.nl> To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: misc/91980: /usr/sbin/rpc.yppasswdd leaves zombie sh processes Message-ID: <200601190020.k0J0KqfB075599@www.freebsd.org> Resent-Message-ID: <200601190030.k0J0U7Kk037707@freefall.freebsd.org>
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>Number: 91980 >Category: misc >Synopsis: /usr/sbin/rpc.yppasswdd leaves zombie sh processes >Confidential: no >Severity: non-critical >Priority: medium >Responsible: freebsd-bugs >State: open >Quarter: >Keywords: >Date-Required: >Class: sw-bug >Submitter-Id: current-users >Arrival-Date: Thu Jan 19 00:30:07 GMT 2006 >Closed-Date: >Last-Modified: >Originator: Arjan van der Velde >Release: 6.0-RELEASE-p2 on i386 >Organization: Mohja >Environment: FreeBSD prime 6.0-RELEASE-p2 FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE-p2 #0: Thu Jan 12 13:38:48 CET 2006 root@prime:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/noresult-prime-0.2 i386 >Description: Whenever changing a password the rpc.yppasswdd updates the password correctly, but leaves a process "[sh]" in zombie state. See below. prime# ps -axj | grep "rpc\.yppasswdd" root 4437 1 4437 4437 0 Is ?? 0:00.01 /usr/sbin/rpc.yppasswdd -v prime# ps -axj | grep 4437 root 4437 1 4437 4437 0 Is ?? 0:00.01 /usr/sbin/rpc.yppasswdd -v root 4440 4437 4437 4437 0 RE ?? 0:00.26 [sh] root 5042 3826 5041 3796 2 S+ p1 0:00.00 grep 4437 prime# The sh process cannot be killed. The only solution is to restart rpc.yppasswdd. I'm not sure what the impact of those zombie processes is and as a workaround one could do a periodical restart of the rpc.yppasswdd process. Thanks, Regards, Arjan van der Velde >How-To-Repeat: Setup a NIS server and start the rpc.yppasswdd process by turning on the following options in rc.conf: nisdomainname="nis-domain" nis_server_enable="YES" nis_yppasswdd_enable="YES" nis_client_enable="YES" nis_client_flags="-S ftaclub-nis,192.168.10.15" nis_yppasswdd_flags="-v" in /var/yp there is a master.passwd present containing a selection of user to be served using NIS. The initial NIS maps have been created following the handbook. >Fix: Workaround: restart the rpc.yppasswdd process periodically. >Release-Note: >Audit-Trail: >Unformatted:
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