[olug] Spawning processes

[Williams, John W.]

Actually by looking at the parent ID I see that the processes are spawning
themselves.  For instance httpd initiated by init has spawned 6 other httpd
processes.  I have also seen it with smb, inetd, and a couple others.

  F S   UID   PID  PPID  C PRI  NI ADDR    SZ WCHAN  TTY          TIME CMD
140 S     0  5198     1  0  61   0    -  1256 do_sel ?        00:00:03 httpd
100 S     0 19681     1  0  60   0    -   318 read_c tty1     00:00:00
mingetty
140 S    99 21512  5198  0  60   0    -  1366 wait_f ?        00:00:00 httpd
140 S    99 21513  5198  0  60   0    -  1366 posix_ ?        00:00:00 httpd
140 S    99 21514  5198  0  60   0    -  1358 posix_ ?        00:00:00 httpd
140 S    99 21515  5198  0  60   0    -  1358 posix_ ?        00:00:00 httpd
140 S    99 21516  5198  0  60   0    -  1358 posix_ ?        00:00:00 httpd
140 S    99 21517  5198  0  60   0    -  1358 posix_ ?        00:00:00 httpd
140 S    99 21518  5198  0  60   0    -  1358 posix_ ?        00:00:00 httpd
140 S    99 21519  5198  0  60   0    -  1358 posix_ ?        00:00:00 httpd
140 S    99 21520  5198  0  60   0    -  1358 posix_ ?        00:00:00 httpd
140 S    99 21521  5198  0  60   0    -  1358 posix_ ?        00:00:00 httpd

Thanks for your help on this.

John

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Chad S. Lauritsen [SMTP:csl at plconline.com]
> Sent:	Thursday, December 07, 2000 10:41 AM
> To:	olug at bstc.net
> Subject:	Re: [olug] Spawning processes
> 
> that depends on what the processes are.
> 
> Things get spawned by cron from time to time. Other things get spawned
> by init at bootup. many of the things started by init are respawned by
> init if they should die. check the following things:
> 
>  /etc/inittab -- the config file for init. everything traces back to
> here
>  su to root and do a 'crontab -l' to see what things are being run by
> root
>  check your own crontab with 'crontab -l'
>  check /etc/crontab
>  check user crontab files in /var/spool/cron
> 
> 
> 
> "Williams, John W." wrote:
> > 
> > I have a couple questions I was hoping someone may be able to answer for
> me.
> > I am running Redhat 6.2 and am curious if it is common for my processes
> to
> > be spawning themselves?  What causes this?  Is there an easy solution to
> > killing the spawned processes without having to actually suspend and
> kill
> > them individually?  Thanks for any help on this.
> > 
> > John Williams
> > 
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