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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