Re: orphaned processes in 7.3 and 8.0

2003-01-14 Thread Brian Jones
Thanks for that info about killerd. I've put it in the 'interesting to look at later' folder as well. However, I was kind of hoping to gain a greater understanding as to why this happens, and maybe come up with some sort of preventive solution. Seems like things should clean up after themsel

orphaned processes in 7.3 and 8.0

2003-01-13 Thread Brian Jones
hi all. I'll try to give as much info as possible about this small annoyance. Just to summarize what's happening, though, I'm seeing a lot of orphaned processes on both redhat 7.3 and 8.0 boxes. By 'orphaned', I mean that the processes wind up being listed as having PPID '1', and not attache