From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Aug 31 01:40:21 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DB487106566C for ; Sun, 31 Aug 2008 01:40:21 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jalmberg@identry.com) Received: from mx1.identry.com (on.identry.com [66.111.0.194]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 71A498FC08 for ; Sun, 31 Aug 2008 01:40:21 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jalmberg@identry.com) Received: (qmail 51295 invoked by uid 89); 31 Aug 2008 01:40:20 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?192.168.1.110?) (jalmberg@75.127.142.66) by mx1.identry.com with ESMTPA; 31 Aug 2008 01:40:20 -0000 In-Reply-To: <2E311D07-5DC9-43FF-9EEF-C56B620A632B@identry.com> References: <2E311D07-5DC9-43FF-9EEF-C56B620A632B@identry.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v752.3) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-Id: <04193A48-47C4-4C13-9743-D84104C49656@identry.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: John Almberg Date: Sat, 30 Aug 2008 21:40:14 -0400 To: John Almberg X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.752.3) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Why the extra shells? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 31 Aug 2008 01:40:21 -0000 > I'm wondering why I have all these shells running? Could it be > because I close my SSH terminal without exiting, thus leaving bash > in some sort of suspended state? > I have tried to leave a shell suspended every which I way I can think of, but can't make it happen, so the problem doesn't seem to be caused by not typing 'exit' to leave the shell... I killed off all those shells and don't see any ill effects, so apparently they weren't started by some running process that depended on them. I'm sure I did something wrong to create these zombie processes... will keep digging to see what it might have been... -- John