I have a crontab entry that runs a perl script and pipes the output to mailx.
0 22 * * 2,5 perl_script_name 2>&1 | mailx -s "test" root &
The problem is on a couple of our DUNIX nodes the perl script completes and the
process becomes defunct and mailx contiunes to wait. If you do a ps the
process that was the perl script is named <defunct> and has a PPID of the mailx
process. This problem does not happen all the time. The same crontab entry
also runs without any problems on other DUNIX and Solaris nodes.
Has anyone seen anything like this? Also any helpful information about defunct
process might help.
Thanks,
Jason Manchenton
Children's Hospital - Boston
manchenton_at_a1.tch.harvard.edu
Received on Mon Dec 28 1998 - 19:07:44 NZDT