Samba defunct processes

[jpcast_real]

Hello gurus,

I have realised that in my hp-ux 11i server , there are a lot of defunct processes . I have also discovered that the PPID of this processes is the samba daemon . I do not know why it happens but I do not find anything strange in the log files of samba . In the patch web I haven't also found any samba patch which can apply to the release I have installed.

Thanks in advance

madcc01:/var/opt/samba> swlist -l fileset | grep -i cifs
# CIFS-Client A.01.09 CIFS Client
CIFS-Client.CIFSCLIENT-KRN A.01.09 Kernel files for CIFS Client
CIFS-Client.CIFSCLIENT-MIS A.01.09 User documents and unicode translation tables for CIFS Client
CIFS-Client.CIFSCLIENT-RUN A.01.09 Run-time programs and libraries for CIFS Client for 64-bit systems
# CIFS-Development A.01.10 HP CIFS Server Source Code Files
CIFS-Development.CIFS-PRG A.01.10 HP CIFS Server Source Code Files
# CIFS-Server A.01.10 HP CIFS Server (Samba) File and Print Services
CIFS-Server.CIFS-ADMIN A.01.10 SWAT Web Administration Tool
CIFS-Server.CIFS-DOC A.01.10 Samba Documentation (original)
CIFS-Server.CIFS-MAN A.01.10 UNIX MAN pages
CIFS-Server.CIFS-RUN A.01.10 Run-time programs and libraries
CIFS-Server.CIFS-UTIL A.01.10 Scripts and utilities

[Stephen Keane]

Add a line

dead time = 15

to your smb.conf file and restart the samba daemons.