[plug] logrotate defunct process

[bob]

On Sunday 04 April 2004 15:24, Shayne O'Neill wrote:
> Is it running under a strange user your cron process? Perhaps you can
> give us your cron line?

This is being kicked off by entries in /etc/cron.daily so the user is 
dependent on the scripts owner but is generally root. 

a ps reveals the following processes waiting logrotate to complete

/usr/sbin/cron
  \_ /USR/SBIN/CRON
      \_ /bin/sh -c test -x /etc/init.d/anacron && /etc/init.d/anacron
      |   \_ /bin/sh /etc/init.d/anacron start
      |       \_ anacron -s -d
      |           \_ run-parts --report /etc/cron.daily
      |               \_ [logrotate] <defunct>
      \_ /usr/sbin/sendmail -i -FCronDaemon -oem root


If I kill logrotate everything else completes and/or closes.

> incidently I've got a problem with analog imploding (memory leak I
> imagine , it grows HUUUGE then implodes), which then goes off and kill
> htdig.

Sorry, use webalizer here :).

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