Date: Thu, 2 Dec 2004 08:43:45 -0600 (CST) From: Lars Eighner <eighner@io.com> To: Ivan Voras <ivoras@fer.hr> Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Unkillable zombie sshd-s? Message-ID: <20041202084228.C57504@goodwill.io.com> In-Reply-To: <41AF215D.9020500@fer.hr> References: <41AF0258.5000601@fer.hr> <200412021207.iB2C7sT0075380@drugs.dv.isc.org> <41AF215D.9020500@fer.hr>
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On Thu, 2 Dec 2004, Ivan Voras wrote: > Mark Andrews wrote: >>> Is there a way to find out what has happened and why does the situation >>> occur? (I can't reboot the server for testing) >> >> You can't kill them because they are already dead. They >> are just holding state so that the parent process can know >> how they died. Once the parent process wait()'s on them >> (or the parent dies) they will disappear. > > I knew that (except the bit that they're ukillable by design :) ), but I was > hoping it's a known ssh problem - this is the first time I saw sshd processes > as zombies (and it seems they've been zombies for a long time, so parents are > probably in error). > > Can I find out what their parent processes are? (something like tree-shaped > ps?) No tree, but try ps -axl. PPID = parent process ID -- Lars Eighner eighner@io.com -finger for geek code- http://www.io.com/~eighner/index.html 8800 N IH35 APT 1191 AUSTIN TX 78753-5266
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