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# 8  
Old 06-16-2006
Sorry yes, I should have clarified that I posted that, this being in the Solaris Forum, I am not aware of it existing in any other flavour either.
# 9  
Old 01-06-2008
Hup
Doing a kill -SIGHUP on the parent will get rid of the defunct process. The problem is that all of the other processes will have to be started over again.
# 10  
Old 01-07-2008
Quote:
Originally Posted by lornolsen
Doing a kill -SIGHUP on the parent will get rid of the defunct process.
Is that an "mqm" specific solution or are you claiming that as a generic solution?

What an application does with SIGHUP is, as they say, application specific.
# 11  
Old 01-28-2008
Just wondering, is there anyway to keep this from happening? I see several "reactive" responses, but I am looking for something *proactive*. (Wow, did I just use that word? Proactive?) Smilie
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