On Thu, 2003-12-18 at 03:00, Mark Fisher wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Thursday 18 Dec 2003 7:22 am, David H. Askew wrote: > > 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 > > > > > 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. > > A defunct process is a zombied process. Sometimes you can kill it directly, > other's you need to issue a 'kill -9 <pid>' command to kill it. More often > than not I tend to find that I need to do a 'pstree', discover the parent > process, and kill that. In turn it kills the child <defunct> process too. > > - -- > Mark > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQE/4WyhzrmqzOOQUj8RAtfLAJ9WypIiXTzHufycH+cIzpCq4g+sKgCcD0OL > AoqfpzPSbAwiwCEt1jp/6bM= > =CJ1y > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
I get one of these defunct netstat processes immediately after starting
evolution ... kinda weird...
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How many Microsoft engineers does it take to screw in a light bulb ?
- none, they just declare darkness a new standard !
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