On Mon, May 29, 2000 at 09:40:21PM +0200, Oswald Buddenhagen wrote: > > that's wrong ... > > if the parent process would exit, then it's children would be inherited by > > init, which would make a wait() upon the sigchld it will receive, when the > > child exits. > > long-time zombies typically indicate a locked up parent process. > > > btw: for cron this is normal. it does not collect it's zombies very often.
I'm also finding several (1-3, usually) zombie processes every few days. They are *always* associated with cron jobs. Not sure what the problem is, but I also had to split out some of my cron.daily and cron.weekly stuff to get everything to run. Any ideas for tracking down what's going wrong here? -- Karsten M. Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com> http://www.netcom.com/~kmself Evangelist, Opensales, Inc. http://www.opensales.org What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Debian GNU/Linux rocks! http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ K5: http://www.kuro5hin.org GPG fingerprint: F932 8B25 5FDD 2528 D595 DC61 3847 889F 55F2 B9B0
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