[ale] Boot script becomes a zombie?

[Michael H. Warfield]

On Mon, 2010-02-22 at 16:01 -0500, James Sumners wrote: 
> It isn't. The sendmail process is a child of the cron process. That
> is, the ppid of 1629 is equal to 1606.

If you kill the parent, the grandparent "inherits" the child.  On some
Unix systems init (1) inherits the child but I believe Linux follows the
grandparent inherits paradigm.

> 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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