How to find the orphaned process

[Kadavan]

Hi All

Can some body tell me how to find the orphaned process in Linux.

Regards
-Binu

[Sree_CMS · Accepted solution]

ps aux | awk '{ print $8 " " $2 }' | grep -w Z

[Dennis Handly]

>shreks84: grep -w Z

This looks like it finds zombies, not orphans.

[JL Martinez]

Agree with Dennis.

I don't know if there's an easy way to find orphans, generally speaking. The init process becomes the father of orphan processes, but many processes are sons of init too in a natural way (like some daemons).