On Wed, 2003-12-17 at 15:34, Mark Knecht wrote: > Hi, > I mentioned some time ago that I had built a Gentoo machine for my 70+ > year old dad and delivered it the day before Thanksgiving. Believe it or > not, he's now got 16 days uptime and tells me he hasn't had any need at all > to turn on his old Windows box! Evolution, Mozilla and Open Office seem to > be enough to make his day fly by. Who says the Linux desktop isn't here? ;-) > > Anyway, one thing I see on his machine that I don't see on any of my > Gentoo boxes is a process listed in 'top' as > > netstat <defunct> > > I presume I can just kill it? (What is a 'defunct' process anyway?) > > Any idea what might cause this to get started, or how to trace down what did > start it originally. > > Thanks in advance, > Mark > > > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
i noticed these weird process(es) myself the other day. I generally have
2 on my system it seems, one as a child process for mozilla, and the
other for evolution. Not sure where they from, but I'm pretty sure it
is a new occurrence.
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