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

Re: orphaned processes in 7.3 and 8.0

2003-01-13 Thread Keith Winston
Brian Jones wrote: 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 '