Zombie Process

[Jack L. Stone]

At 10:00 AM 5.22.2003 -0400, Jason Lieurance wrote:
>Hello,
>
>Here's a brief summary of my system:
>
>FreeBSD 4.7
>PHP 4.3.0
>Qmail 1.3
>vmailmgr
>courier-imap
>daemontools
>
>Anyway, I have this zombie process that's related to daemontools but I
>don't know how to get rid of it.
>
>example:
>
>root     632  440  p0  I     9:40AM   0:00.00 /bin/sh /command/svscanboot
>root          456  p0  S     9:40AM   0:00.01 svscan /service
>root     872  288  p0  S     9:40AM   0:00.03 readproctitle service errors:
>root     884  380  p0  S     9:40AM   0:00.14 supervise supervise
>root       0    0  p0  Z     9:43AM   0:00.00  (supervise)
>
>svscanboot reads:
>
>#!/bin/sh
># WARNING: This file was auto-generated. Do not edit!
>
>PATH=/command:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:
/usr/X11R6/bin
>
>exec </dev/null
>exec >/dev/null
>exec 2>/dev/null
>
>/command/svc -dx /service/* /service/*/log
>
>env - PATH=$PATH svscan /service 2>&1 | \
>env - PATH=$PATH readproctitle service errors: .........
>
>
>Any help or insight would be great, thanks in advance.
>
>-- 
>Jason
>

As long as the zombie is not using any resources (because it's dead), not
to worry -- and, you can't kill it because it is already dead. If it
bothers you, you can kill/restart the daemon, but most likely another
zombie will reappear shortly after.

Best regards,
Jack L. Stone,
Administrator

SageOne Net
http://www.sage-one.net
jackstone at sage-one.net