Thanks. Paul de Weerd wrote: ... > Zombies are part of unix, you *need* them in cases. Leaving them > dangling (for too long) is not good of course, clean-up is required.
That's what's happening. I see that one work-around would be to have cron periodically send a kill signal to the parent. But it pains me to even mention such a lame and problematic hack. > ...This > is the job of the parent process so the 'generic way' to *solve* these > issues is by fixing the parent process. Easier said than done given the original state of my concentration / coding skills and the subsequent deterioration from that state. > ... You may > want to investigate alternative options or fix the code if you can... Where is it that the problem most likely lies? Apache2, perl or the heinous 'apt-cacher' script called by Apache2? /usr/bin/perl /usr/sbin/apt-cacher -d -p /var/run/apt-cacher.pid Looking ahead, what is the timeline for moving to Apache2? Or what are the major reasons 4.3 is going to still use 1.3x? Regards, -Lars