1. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

When I run the top command, it shows 1 process as being Stopped. This is not a zombie, but simply a stopped process. Unfortunately, I can't figure out how to tell which process this is, nor why it is in a stopped state? Any way of finding this out? (7 Replies)

2. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

One of my linux machines has a 'stopped' process which i need to find. How do i find the process that is iin 'stopped' mode. I am running red hat linux enterprise. Frank I have now answered this myself with the following command: ps -e j |grep Z (2 Replies)

3. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hello, I need advice on how to check if started processes are finished in perl, here's explanation : OS is RHEL 4, perl -v = "This is perl, v5.8.0 built for i386-linux-thread-multi" The logic of the script : #!/usr/bin/perl use warnings; $param1 = $ARGV; $param2 = $ARGV; $param3 =... (2 Replies)

4. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi Guys, I am running a script which will refresh the views in my database. After running the script, when i ran ps -ef | grep "script_name" I found there are two entries for the same script process (actually 3 including the grep process). /bin/ksh path/scriptname sh -c... (4 Replies)

5. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users

I let a script A call script B. I used nohup a.sh &>/tmp/log & In script A it calls B directly, without any redirecting or nohup or background. However A is always "Stopped", while B is running correctly. Anybody knows why? thanks! -----Post Update----- BTW, if I don't use nohup... (1 Reply)

6. Shell Programming and Scripting

I let a script A call script B. I used nohup a.sh &>/tmp/log & In script A it calls B directly, without any redirecting or nohup or background. However A is always "Stopped", while B is running correctly. Anybody knows why? thanks! -----Post Update----- BTW, if I don't use nohup... (4 Replies)

7. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hi. Before throwing my question, thanks to everybody for paying attention. Sorry if my english isn't good enough, but it's not my mother tongue. That's my question: I have a java program that throws an external program with "Process p = Runtime.getRuntime.exec(***)". The communication between... (2 Replies)

8. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users

UNIX Tutorial Five % kill %jobnumber Does that not work on a stopped process? I've tried to kill a stopped process and it is not working. Or do you need a certain type of shell for this to work? I don't see anything about this in my man pages. (3 Replies)

9. Solaris

I understand the OBP program looks for the boot-device, loads the bootblk (located on physical disk sectors 1 through 15). Then the secondary boot program, /platform/`arch -k`/ufsboot is run. This program loads the kernel core image files (genunix and unix). So how does it uses the ufsboot and... (1 Reply)

10. HP-UX

Hi, A database (Oracle) replication process was executed by the DBA team in one server (serverX). However, this replication process gets terminated, and there are no errors in the replication log. But there is error in the OS log files (syslog.log) : Aug 8 16:51:47 L28dre02 sshd: subsystem... (1 Reply)