sesdaemon? what does it do?

[Stefano_1]

Someone know what does sesdaemon do?
Which script launch this process at boot??
In my situation, this process generate several zombie process...
I urgently need help

[S.K. Chan]

Scripts that get run at boot up are placed in /sbin/init.d. You might want to search in there first. I've never heard of "sesdaemon" before.

[Christopher Caldwell]

First hit from google.com on sesdaemon:

Support for the SCSI Enclosure Services (SES). A new subsystem that manages the Fibre Channel drive enclosures has been added. The new daemon, sesdaemon, supports the Xyratex 12-slot enclosure and the Clariion 10-slot enclosure. The new client application, sesmgr, uses a command set similar to the set used by the previous fcagent/fccli subsystem. For more information, see the sesdaemon(1M) and sesmgr(1M) man pages.

[Stefano_1]

I found this line into the /etc/inittab:

sesd:1234:respawn:/sbin/sesdaemon #sesdaemon

so the daemon is started by the inittab.

but I don't understand what does it do, because I have a normal SCSI card with normal disks connected to it.

I read the description of the SCSI enclosure service, but I don't understand what does it do in my situation.

[Steven Sim Kok Leong]

Hi,

Did you or perhaps a predecessor copy the /etc/inittab from another system (which is attached to an FC disk enclosure) to this system?

To be sure, you can always schedule downtime, perform a full backup, comment out the entry and test for any impact.

Hope this helps. Regards.

Steven Sim Kok Leong