From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Feb 24 10:27:40 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id KAA05880 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 24 Feb 1997 10:27:40 -0800 (PST) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id KAA05874 for ; Mon, 24 Feb 1997 10:27:39 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id KAA02140; Mon, 24 Feb 1997 10:26:51 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 24 Feb 1997 10:26:51 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White X-Sender: dwhite@localhost Reply-To: Doug White To: Gianmarco Giovannelli cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: * searching a good priest for zombies processes * In-Reply-To: <3.0.1.32.19970225132803.006baf40@scotty.masternet.it> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 25 Feb 1997, Gianmarco Giovannelli wrote: > My system (2.2 GAMMA) fills itself with zombie processes generated by > passserv (the server for the corollary terminal server) but 2.1.5 RELEASE > it didn't happened. > > Boh ?!? How I must do to bury them. ?? Either reboot or modify the parent program to call wait() to remove them. The zombie processes won't hurt anything, although you will want to clear them out every so often to keep things from getting clogged. > Now the only solution to let them disappear is to shutdown, but I couldn't > continue to shut the machine down :-) > It is possible that passserv.c (from corollary.com) is buggy !?!? Is there > anyone that is using it with a cns 16x0 ? You should contact corollary.com regarding this; it's a bug. This is fairly common for ported programs, especially if the porter isn't familiar with BSD's handling of processes. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major