Zombie accounting processes

[George-Cristian Bîrzan]

On Mon, 2006-02-13 at 12:56 +0000, Phil Mayers wrote:
> George-Cristian Bîrzan wrote:
> > On Mon, 2006-02-13 at 13:57 +0200, George-Cristian Bîrzan wrote:
> >> Hello!
> >>
> >> I've been having a rather annoying problem with FreeRADIUS, including
> >> version 1.1.0.
> 
> What OS and kernel version is the server running?

It's a Slackware 10.1 (I think, could be 10) with a 2.6.14.3 kernel.
Same happened with 2.4.29 and 2.6.12.

> >>
> > 
> >>From a strace of a process that remains hung:
> > 
> > [pid 22052] exit_group(0)               = ?
> > Process 22052 detached
> > --- SIGCHLD (Child exited) @ 0 (0) ---
> > --- SIGRTMIN (Unknown signal 32) @ 0 (0) ---
> > <... rt_sigsuspend resumed> )           = -1 EINTR (Interrupted system call)
> > sigreturn()                             = ? (mask now [HUP INT QUIT TERM RTMIN])
> > waitpid(22058, NULL, WNOHANG)           = -1 ECHILD (No child processes)
> 
> Hmm. What does "ps -ejf" (on Linux - translate for closest equivalent on 
> other systems) say for these?

root     25065 24736 23880 23880  0 15:11 ?        00:00:00 [acct-ng.pl] <defunct>
root     25073 23885 23880 23880  0 15:11 ?        00:00:00 [acct-ng.pl] <defunct>

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George-Cristian Bîrzan
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