From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 22 08:49:26 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E91D437B401 for ; Thu, 22 May 2003 08:49:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sage-one.net (adsl-65-71-135-137.dsl.crchtx.swbell.net [65.71.135.137]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0700E43F85 for ; Thu, 22 May 2003 08:49:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jackstone@sage-one.net) Received: from sagea (adsl-65-68-247-73.dsl.crchtx.swbell.net [65.68.247.73]) by sage-one.net (8.12.6p2/8.12.6) with SMTP id h4MFn81v057269; Thu, 22 May 2003 10:49:09 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from jackstone@sage-one.net) Message-Id: <3.0.5.32.20030522104912.0137cb88@sage-one.net> X-Sender: jackstone@sage-one.net X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0.5 (32) Date: Thu, 22 May 2003 10:49:12 -0500 To: "Jason Lieurance" , From: "Jack L. Stone" In-Reply-To: <4306.192.168.1.155.1053612014.squirrel@vipersystems.biz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.0 required=4.5 tests=EMAIL_ATTRIBUTION,IN_REP_TO version=2.54-sage_one.rules_v1 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.54-sage_one.rules_v1 (1.174.2.17-2003-05-11-exp) Subject: Re: Zombie Process X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 22 May 2003 15:49:27 -0000 At 10:00 AM 5.22.2003 -0400, Jason Lieurance wrote: >Hello, > >Here's a brief summary of my system: > >FreeBSD 4.7 >PHP 4.3.0 >Qmail 1.3 >vmailmgr >courier-imap >daemontools > >Anyway, I have this zombie process that's related to daemontools but I >don't know how to get rid of it. > >example: > >root 632 440 p0 I 9:40AM 0:00.00 /bin/sh /command/svscanboot >root 456 p0 S 9:40AM 0:00.01 svscan /service >root 872 288 p0 S 9:40AM 0:00.03 readproctitle service errors: >root 884 380 p0 S 9:40AM 0:00.14 supervise supervise >root 0 0 p0 Z 9:43AM 0:00.00 (supervise) > >svscanboot reads: > >#!/bin/sh ># WARNING: This file was auto-generated. Do not edit! > >PATH=/command:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin: /usr/X11R6/bin > >exec exec >/dev/null >exec 2>/dev/null > >/command/svc -dx /service/* /service/*/log > >env - PATH=$PATH svscan /service 2>&1 | \ >env - PATH=$PATH readproctitle service errors: ......... > > >Any help or insight would be great, thanks in advance. > >-- >Jason > As long as the zombie is not using any resources (because it's dead), not to worry -- and, you can't kill it because it is already dead. If it bothers you, you can kill/restart the daemon, but most likely another zombie will reappear shortly after. Best regards, Jack L. Stone, Administrator SageOne Net http://www.sage-one.net jackstone@sage-one.net