[H-GEN] a process that won't die

[Jason Henry Parker]

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On Fri, 6 Oct 2000, Daniel Quinlan wrote:

>I upgraded one of our machines to Debian 2.2 the other night and the upgrade 
>of pidentd attempted to create a new user called ident
>
>for some reason useradd hung and I had to manually create the user.
>
>it was only today when I went to add a new user that I found the process
>was still running and nothing seems to be able to kill it.

> host:~# ps aux | grep useradd | grep -v grep
> root     23021  0.0  0.7  1432  672 ?        D    Oct03   0:00 useradd -d /var/run/identd -g nogroup -s /bin/false -u 100 identd

ps aux | grep [u]seradd # works a little better.

from ps(1):

       PROCESS STATE CODES
       D   uninterruptible sleep (usually IO)
       R   runnable (on run queue)
       S   sleeping
       T   traced or stopped
       Z   a defunct ("zombie") process

I think this should answer your question.

jason
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