Debian + Exec-Program = Zombie process

[Rashad Rustamoff]

> as soon as I send accounting stop packet to radius, test.pl executes and
> becomes a zombie. (I tried bash script, c program with the same result.)
>
>  3890 ?        Ss     0:00 /usr/local/freeradius/sbin/radiusd
>  3893 ?        Z      0:00  \_ [test.pl] <defunct>
>
> As far as I know, this should have been fixed in 1.0.3 and I doubt it's
> debian specific, as I know 0.93 works on another RH 7.3 without a
> problem (In fact zombie is listed there as well but disappears after
> several seconds).
>
> Any ideas/suggestions?

Did you try version 1.0.1 indeed?
I had this problem several monthes ago with versions 1.0.4 and 1.0.5, but in
case of 1.0.1 it works.
As I know version 1.0.1 hasn't this problem. My server configuration is
similar with yours: Debian 3.1 (Sarge)


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