I found out today that I have two zombie sshd processes on a busy server
(dozen or so users over ssh, many other services), and I can't kill them.
sshd38653 0.0 0.0 00 ?? ZMon08AM 0:00.03 defunct
sshd75851 0.0 0.0 00 ?? Z 7:33PM 0:00.08 defunct
kill -9
I found out today that I have two zombie sshd processes on a busy server
(dozen or so users over ssh, many other services), and I can't kill them.
sshd38653 0.0 0.0 00 ?? ZMon08AM 0:00.03 defunct
sshd75851 0.0 0.0 00 ?? Z 7:33PM 0:00.08 defunct
Mark Andrews wrote:
Is there a way to find out what has happened and why does the situation
occur? (I can't reboot the server for testing)
You can't kill them because they are already dead. They
are just holding state so that the parent process can know
how they died. Once
On Thu, 02 Dec 2004 15:06:21 +0100, Ivan Voras [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Can I find out what their parent processes are? (something like
tree-shaped ps?)
/usr/ports/sysutils/pstree
and ps can display the ppid (parent pid).
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Ronald Klop, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
On Thu, 2 Dec 2004, Ivan Voras wrote:
Mark Andrews wrote:
Is there a way to find out what has happened and why does the situation
occur? (I can't reboot the server for testing)
You can't kill them because they are already dead. They
are just holding state so that the parent process
Ronald Klop wrote:
On Thu, 02 Dec 2004 15:06:21 +0100, Ivan Voras [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Can I find out what their parent processes are? (something like
tree-shaped ps?)
/usr/ports/sysutils/pstree
and ps can display the ppid (parent pid).
Thanks, parents were stuck and had to be killed.
