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From: jack@hpindda.HP.COM (Jack Repenning)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: Lots of zombies on HP-UX (2.1, 3.1), all children of remshd
Message-ID: <4310046@hpindda.HP.COM>
Date: 10 Jul 89 20:19:21 GMT
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I've seen persistent zombie children of remshd when people remsh
processes that they put into background, e.g.:

	       remsh m840 hpterm -display $DISPLAY \& &

If this is happening, you should find active processes belonging to
the same users (the hpterm, in the example).  These will be the
program started by the zombie (which was a shell).

Unfortunately, they'll be a little hard to track down from ps:
although they'll be in the same process group as the zombie, that's
not visible, and they'll show PPID of "1".

If this is your problem, then to make these zombies go away (and the
remshd, and the remsh back on the workstation as well), you need to
arrange to close stdin, stdout, and stderr on the "real" process
(again, the hpterm in the example).

Jack Repenning
jack@hpda.hp.com