Yes, when I killed the days-old amandad the zombies went away
and the subequent amdump ran fine. I just don't know why the
zombies recurred.


On Tue, Jul 07, 2009 at 04:03:32PM -0400, Dustin J. Mitchell wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 3:56 PM, Brian Cuttler<brian AT wadsworth DOT org> 
> wrote:
> > Good news, cleared hung amanda jobs on Lyra (again) and it ran
> > well the following day(s), but I don't know why those jobs are
> > getting jammed up...
> 
> Amanda's handling of processes on the client side is embarrassingly
> bad.  But the zombies should disappear when the parent process
> (amandad) exits..
> 
> Dustin
> 
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