[11106] in Athena Bugs
solaris (7.6K): syslogd
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (yandros@MIT.EDU)
Wed Sep 29 17:51:42 1993
From: yandros@MIT.EDU
Date: Wed, 29 Sep 93 17:51:32 -0400
To: bugs@MIT.EDU
On garfield, a sparc classic in the Watchmaker Zone. (e40-bugs-4)
What were you trying to do?
Find out what my machine was doing. I added this to the bottom of
/etc/syslog.conf:
## let us see what this puppy is doing...
*.debug yandros
What's wrong:
1) It sent syslogs to `yandros' by writing the messages to his ttys
(yes, plural) directly when he was logged in.
2) It seems to generate a zombie child process of syslogd for every
syslog sent.
What should have happened:
1) It should use zephyr. (yeah, I know; `/etc/syslogd' and not
`/etc/athena/syslogd'. :-/ )
2) I should have recieved fewer `No more processes' and `..failed:
can't vfork' error messages (like, zero. :)
Please describe any relevant documentation references:
2) ``Parents who don't wait() for their children will produce
zombies.''
