Identifying Zombies

One on server I adminster, users run workflows that occasionally leave zombie processes behind. A zombie describes a processes that has finished but has not had its exit status read by its parent process. I keep this shell script around to generate a report on zombie children and their negligent parents that I can send to the workflow developers.

blog/identifying_zombies.txt · Last modified: 2011/09/08 13:36 by brian
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