Subject: Zombie Processes

From: [email-masked] (Jon Florence)
Date: Fri, 14 Jun 96 15:38:18 CDT

We're running version 2.4 under SunOS.  Occasionally, one of our FTP users
will have a line drop on them in the middle of a transfer.  This can leave a
zombie session taking up a user slot.

Is there any automated way to detect and eliminate these zombie sessions?

Please feel free to e-mail me directly.

Thanks in advance.

Jon Florence
[email-masked]

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From: David Emmerson <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 20 Jun 1996 16:30:01 -0400

Jon,

Hi, I haven't seen any follow-ups to your question, and I was wondering
if anyone has came up with any solutions regarding the zombie processes?

I am running wu-ftpd under Solaris 2.4, and I'll been killing a lot of
zombies lately.

Any hints?

Dave