[ale] Boot script becomes a zombie?

[James Sumners]

It isn't. The sendmail process is a child of the cron process. That
is, the ppid of 1629 is equal to 1606.

On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 3:51 PM, Jim Kinney <jim.kinney at gmail.com> wrote:
> So why is sendmail a sibling of the fast_cgi script again?
>
> On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 3:11 PM, James Sumners <james.sumners at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> I'm loathe to kill the parent process because it has a second child --
>> sendmail. I kind of want sendmail running.
>>
>> $ ps -eH
>> *snip*
>>  1599 ?        00:00:00   cron
>>  1606 ?        00:00:00     cron
>>  1614 ?        00:00:00       boot_fastcgi_bi <defunct>
>>  1629 ?        00:00:00       sendmail
>> *snip*



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