Date: Thu, 02 Dec 2004 15:06:21 +0100 From: Ivan Voras <ivoras@fer.hr> To: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Unkillable zombie sshd-s? Message-ID: <41AF215D.9020500@fer.hr> In-Reply-To: <200412021207.iB2C7sT0075380@drugs.dv.isc.org> References: <41AF0258.5000601@fer.hr> <200412021207.iB2C7sT0075380@drugs.dv.isc.org>
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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?)
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