On Mon, 2008-04-28 at 09:14 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > 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. > > p > Something funny about this discussion. Using ps, Zombie processes have a Z in Process State Column. -- ======================================================================= Novinson's Revolutionary Discovery: When comes the revolution, things will be different -- not better, just different. ======================================================================= Aaron Konstam telephone: (210) 656-0355 e-mail: akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
