Why? sh <defunct>
Scot L. Harris
webid at cfl.rr.com
Thu Jul 22 16:58:02 UTC 2004
On Thu, 2004-07-22 at 12:37, George Neusse wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I have an issue I don't understand and am wondering if it is a real
> problem or not.
>
>
> Can anyone provide any insight? Is this a bug?
>
> Regards,
>
> George Neusse
> ps -A
>
> 3399 pts/1 00:00:00 bash
> 3422 ? 00:00:00 crond
> 3423 ? 00:00:00 sh <defunct>
Looks like a bourne shell process. A defunct process normally means a
process exited that has a parent but the parent never waited for the
child process.
You might get a little more info by using ps -Af.
Do you have any services which are not starting up?
Anything in your log files?
--
Scot L. Harris
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