[Avcheck] (re-send) DaemonTools problem with chroot'd kavdaemon

Michael Tokarev mjt@tls.msk.ru
Fri, 09 Nov 2001 04:32:03 +0300


Michael Kubecka wrote:
> 
> (Sorry, the last msg was sent before being finished).
> 
> I thought it would be very straight-forward to put chroot'd kavdaemon
> under control of Daemontools, but it appears that Daemontools is
> constantly
> trying to spawn additional kavdaemons...

Because kavdaemon will itself fork into "background", and daemontools
will assume it was exited and should be restarted.  There is no
way to stop it from forking (currently at least), or may be I
missed something?

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> # ps -auxw | grep kav
> avdaemon  45725  0.0  0.0     0    0  ??  ZN    2:57PM   0:00.00
> (kavdaemon)

What's this?  State is "ZN", and process name in (parens).  Is
this due to swapout?  It looks like zombie to me...

Regards,
 Michael.