Subject: process problem

From: Tan Jian <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 06 Jul 1998 13:46:32 +0900

Hi,

Could anybody help me with the following question?

I found some children processes can not automately dispear in time ,

when  enter "ps -ef |grep ftp " ,I find some processes in the process
table

has been obsolete, but they still stay there,

$ps -ef |grep ftp
 ftp  4997  3572  0   Jun 28 ?        0:36 ftpd
     ftp 14369  3572  0   Jul 01 ?        0:00 ftpd
     ftp 24326  3572  0 12:58:24 ?        0:01 ftpd
     ftp   678  3572  0   Jun 26 ?        0:00 ftpd
     ftp 24134  3572  0 12:07:48 ?        0:00 ftpd
     ftp  6127  3572  0   Jun 28 ?        0:00 ftpd
     ftp 15078  3572  0   Jul 02 ?        0:00 ftpd
     ftp  4846  3572  0   Jun 28 ?        0:00 ftpd
     ftp  5777  3572  0   Jun 28 ?        0:47 ftpd
     ftp  8743  3572  0   Jun 29 ?        0:00 ftpd
     ftp 22531  3572  0   Jul 05 ?        0:00 ftpd
     ftp 18062  3572  0   Jul 03 ?        0:00 ftpd
     ftp 16397  3572  0   Jul 02 ?        0:00 ftpd
     ftp 14359  3572  0   Jul 01 ?        0:00 ftpd
     ftp 28898  3572  0   Jun 26 ?        0:00 ftpd
     ftp 21812  3572  0   Jul 05 ?        0:01 ftpd

do anybody know why?

regards
kevin