RE: Zombie processes

["Thomas E. Dukes" <edukes alltel net>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: fedora-list-bounces redhat com 
> [mailto:fedora-list-bounces redhat com] On Behalf Of Andrea Giuliano
> Sent: Tuesday, October 05, 2004 8:03 AM
> To: For users of Fedora Core releases
> Subject: Re: Zombie processes
> 
> Try with:
> 
> 	lsof | grep proc-name
> 
> This will give you the list of files open by proc-name. This 
> could be useful.
> 
> Try also:
> 
> 	rpm -qf `locate proc-name`
> 
> or something like that, to see if there is a package which 
> proc-name belongs to. If there is not such a package, you'd 
> better consider your situation as risky, because you have 
> some commands around that you never installed with some 
> package, but some one could have.
> 
> Best regards.
> 
Hello Andrea,

Thanks.  I was able to determine it was tomact.  The problem was a couple
files that neede write permissions.