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Date:      Thu, 02 Dec 2004 12:54:00 +0100
From:      Ivan Voras <ivoras@fer.hr>
To:        stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Unkillable zombie sshd-s?
Message-ID:  <41AF0258.5000601@fer.hr>

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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 <defunct>
sshd    75851  0.0  0.0     0    0  ??  Z     7:33PM   0:00.08 <defunct>

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)



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