On Friday, September 15, 1995 at 0:57:48 am CET, Donald Timmonds Harrington <[log in to unmask]> wrote: >We have an application that does _a_lot_ of process handling. A >master process initiates sub-processes on other devices. We also >use a lot of message files. Ever since going up on 5.0 push, we >have been in situations, ocassionally, where the parent process has >died (for whatever reason), but the child processes are still alive. >This is seen by going into glance and looking at the session screen >for the parent session - the parent process number has a priority of >0 (zero). > >Has anybody ever heard of this before (not including you, Elbert)? > >Most importantly, is there a patch for it (I'm tired of being woken >up at three in the morning because the backup failed)? > YES, YES, we have the same problem. It happens with the HTTPD server too. The strange thing is, we ran into this problem on a test machine, running the 5.0 pull release. We thought it was solved in the 5.0 push, but we have recently moved our WWW-server our production environment running the push release and we see it again !! We have also recently installed a patch for a horrible problem and suspected it might have been re- introduced with it, but we're not sure. I am curious to know if there is a patch. Peter ============================================================= Drs. Peter J.C. van Boheemen Head Systems Development and Data Base Management LIBRARY WAGENINGEN AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY/PUDOC-DLO Jan-Kopshuis, Automation Department tel: +31-8370-82517 fax: +31-8370-84761 Email: [log in to unmask] Snail:Gen. Foulkesweg 19, 6703 BK Wageningen, the Netherlands