On Thu, Nov 25, 2004 at 06:39:58PM +0100, Sören Edzen wrote:
> amanda  6163 0.0 0.3 2296 844 ? Ss   18:29   0:00 amandad
> amanda  6165 0.0 0.0    0   0 ? Z    18:29   0:00 [amandad] <defunct>
>                                                              ___^___
> 
> Does <defunct> means that there's something wrong with amandad or
> could there be some other problem. 

<defunct> means that the process has exited, but its parent
process hasn't yet collected its exit status.  Such "undead"
processes are called "zombies".  See:
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zombie_process

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