topic Re: process problem - PPID is 0 in Operating System - HP-UX

process problem - PPID is 0

Olivier LEGRAND — Wed, 23 Feb 2005 10:32:29 GMT

On a HP-UX server, I have this :
apache 10788 0 0 11:01:08 ? 0:00 /opt/hpapache2/bin/httpd

The PPID is 0

UID PID PPID C STIME TTY TIME COMMAND
root 0 0 0 Feb 15 ? 0:13 swapper

I can't kill this process. Does anyone know this kind of problem

Re: process problem - PPID is 0

Eric Antunes — Wed, 23 Feb 2005 10:39:45 GMT

I think those processes with PPID = 0 are system processes...

Re: process problem - PPID is 0

Olivier LEGRAND — Wed, 23 Feb 2005 10:43:05 GMT

I can't kill the apache process, Sorry

Re: process problem - PPID is 0

Pete Randall — Wed, 23 Feb 2005 10:43:53 GMT

A PPID of 0 indicates that it is probably a daemon started during the rc process. Assuming that's true, there should be a start/stop script in /sbin/init.d. Try running "grep httpd /sbin/init.d/*" to see if you can find the script (probably /sbin/init.d/webadmin?). Assuming you do find it, you should be able to run the script with the "stop" parameter to get rid of the process.

Pete

Re: process problem - PPID is 0

Olivier LEGRAND — Wed, 23 Feb 2005 10:46:21 GMT

I can't stop apache properly.
And the kill -9 does not work

Re: process problem - PPID is 0

Olivier LEGRAND — Wed, 23 Feb 2005 10:53:49 GMT

It seems to be a deactivated process

Re: process problem - PPID is 0

Leif Halvarsson_2 — Wed, 23 Feb 2005 10:54:48 GMT

Hi,
There is a command "apachectl" that should be used for managing apache. Check the man page or do a "apachectl -h"

Re: process problem - PPID is 0

Olivier LEGRAND — Wed, 23 Feb 2005 10:59:30 GMT

It is not a apache problem. The process is hanged because of a problem of memory (and swap). But now I can not do a "kill -9", and I don't know how I can reactivated this process

Re: process problem - PPID is 0

Steven E. Protter — Wed, 23 Feb 2005 11:04:55 GMT

If you can not kill the process, the only alternative is to boot the machine.

SEP

Re: process problem - PPID is 0

Olivier LEGRAND — Mon, 07 Mar 2005 05:00:22 GMT

I had to reboot the server