Re: Why? sh <defunct>

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On Thu, 2004-07-22 at 12:37, George Neusse wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> I have an issue I don't understand and am wondering if it is a real
> problem or not.
> 

> 
> Can anyone provide any insight?  Is this a bug?  
> 
> Regards,
> 
> George Neusse

> ps -A
> 
>  3399 pts/1    00:00:00 bash
>  3422 ?        00:00:00 crond
>  3423 ?        00:00:00 sh <defunct>

Looks like a bourne shell process.  A defunct process normally means a
process exited that has a parent but the parent never waited for the
child process.

You might get a little more info by using ps -Af.  

Do you have any services which are not starting up?

Anything in your log files?

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