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urbanomad
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 Posted: Tue Sep 19, 2006 3:23 am Post subject: zombie process in top |
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| top claims that I have a zombie process. How can I figure out which process this is? |
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desultory
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urbanomad
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| Posted: Tue Sep 19, 2006 11:33 am Post subject: |
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| Code: | | 6180 ? Z 0:00 [netstat] <defunct> |
do you think this means someone has found an exploit in netstat, or is my netstat just screwed up? |
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pholthau
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a zombie is just a dead process which parent did not notice its dead. nothing to worry about...
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desultory
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| urbanomad wrote: | | Code: | | 6180 ? Z 0:00 [netstat] <defunct> |
do you think this means someone has found an exploit in netstat, or is my netstat just screwed up? |
I think it probably means that one of the users of that system was running Mozilla or Firefox or a Netscape browser. It is as pholthau posted, nothing to worry about. |
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