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From: David Malone <dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie>
To: Michael Harnois <mharnois@cpinternet.com>
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Subject: Re: spawning zombies incapacitate system
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On Tue, Jan 01, 2002 at 09:01:30AM -0600, Michael Harnois wrote:
> Something on my -current system is spawning zombies of sh. With 55
> minutes of uptime, I already have 48 of them. How do I figure out what
> the heck is doing this?

Try "ps -auxo ppid" and look at the parent process id for the zombies.

	David.

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