From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Dec 2 11:54:07 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 792F416A4CE for ; Thu, 2 Dec 2004 11:54:07 +0000 (GMT) Received: from lara.cc.fer.hr (lara.cc.fer.hr [161.53.72.113]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B5D4E43D3F for ; Thu, 2 Dec 2004 11:54:06 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ivoras@fer.hr) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (localhost.cc.fer.hr [127.0.0.1]) by lara.cc.fer.hr (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id iB2Bs0vg015993 for ; Thu, 2 Dec 2004 12:54:01 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from ivoras@fer.hr) Message-ID: <41AF0258.5000601@fer.hr> Date: Thu, 02 Dec 2004 12:54:00 +0100 From: Ivan Voras User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.9 (X11/20041111) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: stable@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-2; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Unkillable zombie sshd-s? X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 02 Dec 2004 11:54:07 -0000 I found out today that I have two zombie sshd processes on a busy server (dozen or so users over ssh, many other services), and I can't kill them. sshd 38653 0.0 0.0 0 0 ?? Z Mon08AM 0:00.03 sshd 75851 0.0 0.0 0 0 ?? Z 7:33PM 0:00.08 kill -9 doesn't complain, but doesn't do the job either. Is there a way to find out what has happened and why does the situation occur? (I can't reboot the server for testing)