Re: [semi-OT]: finding process which is defunct
"Toby Betts" <[email protected]>
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MagicalTux wrote: > Selon Brian Reichert <[email protected]>: > >>On Wed, Mar 24, 2004 at 07:35:37PM +0000, Payal Rathod wrote: >> >>>Hi, >>>Just looking at ps waux I found a process which was defunct. How do I >>>know which program is being run? >>> > Zombie processes don't change PID, so it looks like it's not the same > everytime... > > I think you have something that runs tcpserver and restart it when it dies > (daemontools ?). So it's always restarted when it dies. If it is the case that tcpserver is being started improperly, leaving a zombie process, and then being restarted by daemontools, identifying which service is doing so should only be a matter of running "svstat /service*" and seeing which service is up for 0 or 1 seconds. Toby