Unkillable zombie sshd-s?
Lars Eighner
eighner at io.com
Thu Dec 2 06:47:56 PST 2004
On Thu, 2 Dec 2004, Ivan Voras wrote:
> 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?)
No tree, but try ps -axl.
PPID = parent process ID
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