We recently upgraded from 3.2g to 4.0a on an Alpha 2100.
We have a program that logs people out if they are idle by sending a HUP
signal to the session leader (as reported in utmp). This worked great
under DU3.2g. Now, sometimes the processes thus killed are not reaped,
leaving <defunct> processes around and an stale entry in utmp. The
processes' parent is 1 (init).
Anyone experience anything similar or have any ideas? Could init be
missing the SIGCHLD signal or something?
John Peterson -- University Networking Services -- Brigham Young University
Internet: John_Peterson_at_byu.edu Phone: (801) 378-5007
Received on Tue Dec 03 1996 - 22:42:45 NZDT