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Subject: Re: User's cron job creates zombie process on 5.3
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--- Don Lewis <truckman@FreeBSD.org> wrote:

> On 20 Jan, spam maps wrote:
> > Peter Jeremy wrote:
> 
> >> My guess is that your ssh process is holding open
> >> file descriptors and the cron child process is
> >> waiting for these descriptors to close before
> >> wait()ing for the child.  If this is true, then
> >> you
> >> should avoid it with something like:
> >> ( /usr/bin/ssh -n -f ${tunnel} >/dev/null 2>&1 &
)
> >> 
> 
> I suspect that the & to put ssh in the background
> isn't necessary.

You're right indeed, it also works without the &.
Thanks,
Rob.

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