Re: Hello! (and zombie processes...)

[Stan Lewis <gashcrumb@gmail.com>]

I built/tested this on a fresh install that I upgraded from sarge to etch.  
Basically installed the minimal CD, got a bare minimum system working, 
upgraded it and upgraded the kernel to 2.6.18.  Then tested the test code 
attached to the bug to verify that I could see zombie processes, rebuilt the 
libc6.1 package, installed it and then ran the test case again to verify the 
zombies were gone, gave it a reboot and the machine came back, then finally 
I've been installing stuff and am working on getting a decent 2.6.20 kernel 
build.  

Oh yeah, the machine is a Compaq XP 1000 500mhz box.

Cheers,

Stan

On Wed 21 February 2007, Bob McElrath wrote:
> What machine did you test this on?  I want to get rid of my clamav
> zombies and corresponding cron job too... but don't want to have to
> drive 3 hours to the colo in case it doesn't work... ;)
>
> Paul Slootman [paul@debian.org] wrote:
> > On Tue 20 Feb 2007, Stan Lewis wrote:
> > > If someone wants to give these packages a whirl I've put them up at:
> > >
> > > http://gashcrumb.homelinux.org/tmp
> >
> > I installed the libc6.1 and libc6.1-dev.
> >
> > The zombies I was getting from clamav-daemon are now gone!
> > Good work :-)
> > I used to have a cronjob that restarted clamav-daemon every hour,
> > to prevent the zombies filling up memory... (this is my mail gateway /
> > firewall).
>
> --
> Cheers,
> Bob McElrath [Univ. of California at Davis, Department of Physics]
>
>     "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one
>     persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all
> progress depends on the unreasonable man."
>         -- George Bernard Shaw, Maxims for Revolutionists