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? -- Scot L. Harris webid@xxxxxxxxxx Live long and prosper. -- Spock, "Amok Time", stardate 3372.7