On Monday 01 May 2023 09:45:16 pm J Leslie Turriff via tde-users wrote: > On 2023-05-01 20:25:55 E. Liddell via tde-users wrote: > > On Mon, 1 May 2023 17:30:24 -0500 > > No, no. --all-sessions always succeeds, but then there is no way to > determine if one of the sessions that it returns is dead or not, except by > sending a message to each. If I send a message to one that is dead the > script will hang. > It would be nice if it returned a status code (or anything) instead of > hanging. It's been since forever since I did anything with DCOP. If I read right up thread you're doing this a root? So is there anyway to get the PID(s), check which are zombies, then just kill them? Here's some commands to start with (which you probably already know ;) ps aux | grep -i dcop ps aux | awk '$8 ~ /^[Zz]/' ^ last command blatently stolen from https://itsfoss.com/kill-zombie-process-linux/ Best, Michael ____________________________________________________ tde-users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Web mail archive available at https://mail.trinitydesktop.org/mailman3/hyperkitty/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx