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Date: Thu, 16 Apr 2015 11:57:45 -0400
From: Garrett Wollman <wollman@csail.mit.edu>
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Subject: auditd zombies in 10.1?
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I notice that systems of ours which were recently upgraded to 10.1 are
accumulating zombies at an alarming rate.  (Well, alarming enough to
cause me to be paged at 4 in the morning, at any rate!)  These zombies
are all children of auditd.  Has anyone else seen or debugged this?

-GAWollman