Re: Process defunct

[Phil D'Amore]

The Right Way to fix this is to find out why the defunct process is 
hanging around in the first place.  Whatever originally started the 
sniffer process is not properly handling its departure, hence the 
process table entry is being held.

The source if this problem is likely this process' parent (identified by 
the PPID in the output of a 'ps -ef'.  If you don't solve this problem, 
then over time you will wind up with a process table full of defunct 
sniffer processes.  Is cfengine starting this process, or is something 
else starting it?

RT wrote:

> Hi group
>
> Have a process problem I hope you can help me with. We are using cfengine on
> some of our linux network monitors. One of the processes is called 'Sniffer'
> and some time this process crashes. The problem is that the process will not
> disappear but a ps -A command will show:
>
> sniffer  (defunct)
>
> Due to this the service will not get restarted in the processes: facility,
> as the process is apparently detected as 'alive'
>
> Any idea how to get cfengine to restart a process when it "defunct's"?
>
> Thanks in advance
>
> Rasmus
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