On Mon, 2008-04-28 at 12:55 +0000, tony.chamberlain@xxxxxxxxx wrote: > > Someone requested a list of orphaned and zombie processes. I know > that orphan processes have > PPID of 1 so I can > > ps -aeo user,pid,ppid,stime,time,state,command | awk '($3=="1" || > $6=="Z")' > > But this will also print all system processes because they also have > PPID of 1. > How can I find just the orphan processes > (without | grep -v mgetty | grep -v init | grep -v this | grep -v that > | grep -v something_else | grep -v blahblahblah)? > -- "Zombie" is a well-defined process state (a process which is trying to die but hasn't yet been able to tell its parent), but "orphan" is an informal definition (a process with a dead parent, which is then adopted by init, and is not a zombie). Unless you can distinguish all processes which init "ought to have" and eliminate them from consideration, there's no way to distinguish. poc -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
