Re: pump doesn't really exit

[Raghavendra Bhat <ragu@vsnl.com>]

[Sun, Oct 21, 2001 at 02:38:46AM -0400] Shaya:

> while the parent eventually quits (when  I get the IP) the child keeps
> on pumping away

Do a  'ps auwx' and see whether  the parent process has  become a zombie
process.  Is the child process still active ?  It would be better if you
switch to 'dhcp-client' instead of 'pump'. 

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