From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jul 7 11:48:56 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from penelope.skunk.org (unknown [208.133.204.51]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 550A214D7D for ; Wed, 7 Jul 1999 11:48:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ben@penelope.skunk.org) Received: from localhost (ben@localhost) by penelope.skunk.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id SAA13502 for ; Wed, 7 Jul 1999 18:48:37 GMT Date: Wed, 7 Jul 1999 18:48:37 +0000 (GMT) From: Ben Rosengart To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: amanda zombie Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I have some systems which run amandad out of inetd: amanda dgram udp wait backup \ /usr/local/amanda/libexec/amandad amandad Fairly often, amanda turns into a zombie: $ ps auxww | grep amanda amanda 935 0.0 0.0 0 0 ?? Z - 0:00.00 (amandad) $ Why would inetd fail to reap the dead amanda process? I tried sending it a SIGCHLD manually, but that didn't help. I have found no solution other than rebooting the machine once this happens. I'm considering changing the "wait" to "nowait", but first I have to figure out if this would have unintended consequences ... any thoughts? -- Ben UNIX Systems Engineer, Skunk Group StarMedia Network, Inc. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message