Re : Dead process

[Vincent_5]

Hi Guys,
Attach is some dead process found on my server. can someone please advice if this is critical and is there a way to remove the dead process.

Regards
Vincent

[Patrick Wallek]

Hmm... I hadn't looked at that option of 'who' before. It appears to me that those are normal though. I have the same exact output on 3 servers that I just checked.

[Pete Randall]

I don't think there's anything to worry about. According to the man page, "who -d" displays all processes that have expired and not been respawned by init. Most processes die at some point and few are respawned by init, so it makes sense to me that you would see some listed. Here's what my perfectly healthy workstation shows:

$ who -d
vxenable . Jan 3 09:06
bcheckrc . Jan 3 09:06
cat . Jan 3 09:06
rm . Jan 3 09:06
cat . Jan 3 09:06
sh . Jan 3 09:06
rc . Jan 3 09:08
sh . Jan 3 09:08
plr ttyp7 Jun 22 13:00
plr dtremote Aug 3 07:24
plr ttyp8 Sep 13 08:30
LOGIN pts/ta Aug 29 09:41
tmr pts/0 Aug 19 11:33
plr pts/1 Mar 22 14:33
plr ttypa Aug 3 07:24
root ttypb Feb 21 11:44


Pete

[Geoff Wild]

Check out the last post in this thread:

http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=953842

Rgds...Geoff

[Stephen Keane]

If they are bothering you, you can always trim /etc/utmp, then you won't see them :)

(Of course they may still be using resources)