Re: Protection from zombies

Can you strace the parent process and figure out if it's stuck in read() or wait()?

Also, what is the particular command? Perhaps it fails to close STDOUT or STDERR under some circumstances?

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Re^2: Protection from zombies by nomis80 (Sexton) on May 17, 2005 at 12:07 UTC
Not really. I can't reproduce the behavior unless I'm running as a CGI. The particular command is a shell script living in /etc/init.d.	[reply]
Re^3: Protection from zombies by kscaldef (Pilgrim) on May 17, 2005 at 17:53 UTC
You can attach to an existing process with "strace -p ###". Can you give us more information about the init.d script?	[reply]
Re^3: Protection from zombies by sgifford (Prior) on May 19, 2005 at 21:39 UTC
Try replacing the perl script with a shell script that runs `strace` on the original script, saving the output somewhere where you can look at it later.	[reply]