Scads of defunct processes ins AIX 4.3.3

chuck chuck at fiu.edu
Mon Sep 17 08:36:57 EST 2001


Thanx Sandor!

Well, I did have it set to respawn, but I thought I had changed that.
I'm going to try starting it manually and see what happens although I
was sure I already did that on one box after removing it from inittab.
Thanx for the insight.
Chuck

Sandor W. Sklar wrote:

> How are you starting the initial sshd daemon? If through /etc/inittab,
> make sure that the action is not set to "respawn", but is "once".
> Better would be to just call a script that starts the daemon after
> checking some things.
>
> Perhaps I'm off-base here; in any case, I'd be happy to help you if
> you provide more information.
>
> --Sandy
>
>> I hope someone can help. I've installed 2.9p2 on a number of AIX
>> boxes and
>> it works great.
>> The problem is that a HUGE >700 number of defunct processes get
>> generated
>> by sshd. Did I do
>> something wrong ? Any suggestions ?
>>
>> Please email chuck at fiu.edu as I don't subscribe to the list.
>>
>>
>> TIA,
>> Chuck
>>
>>
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>> Content-Disposition: attachment;
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