Le Thu 4/08/2005, Steven Spence disait > Julio Maidanik wrote: > >Hi, > >I would have thought that starting clamd in inittab, as for example: > > > >av:2345:respawn:/usr/local/sbin/clamd > > > >would be a nice idea ... > >no need to check whether clamd is alive... > > > >Unfortunately when I did that, I got problems. It seems that the parent > >process foks a child process and then terminates, and therefore init > >continually respawns the process. > Are you sure this is what is happening? If I remember correctly > a parent isn't supposed to die after spawning a child. Child > processes without parents are zombies.
It is a standard way to daemonize a process. Child without parent are not zombies, they are "adopted" by init. Zombies are dead processes whose parent did not acknowledge the death. -- Erwan David ========================================================== Trusted Logic Tel: +33 1 30 97 25 03 5 rue du Bailliage Std: +33 1 30 97 25 00 78000 Versailles Fax: +33 1 30 97 25 19 France _______________________________________________ http://lurker.clamav.net/list/clamav-users.html
