Hi All,
Anyone have any shell script to capture the zombie process, as according to the support they need the real time zombie PID, they only provide the
kdb
(0) > p* |grep -i defunct
(0) > p * | grep <hex pid>
But this is doesn't seem easy to catch the zombie as it is not always appear in the process.
wish someone can shed some light on this. Thanks
Yeah...it's not that simple.
#!/bin/bash
# zkill - zombie process killing script
# Must be run under root.
case "$1" in
--admin)
stat=`ps ax | awk '{print $1}' | grep -v "PID" | xargs -n 1 ps lOp | grep -v "UID" | awk '{print"pid: "$3" *** parent_pid: "$4" *** status: "$10" *** process: "$13}' | grep ": Z"`
if ((${#stat} > 0));then
echo zombie processes found:
echo .
ps ax | awk '{print $1}' | grep -v "PID" | xargs -n 1 ps lOp | grep -v "UID" | awk '{print"pid: "$3" *** parent_pid: "$4" *** status: "$10" *** process: "$13}' | grep ": Z"
echo -n "Kill zombies? [y/n]: "
read keyb
if [ $keyb == 'y' ];then
echo killing zombies..
ps ax | awk '{print $1}' | grep -v "PID" | xargs -n 1 ps lOp | grep -v "UID" | awk '{print$4" status:"$10}' | grep "status:Z" | awk '{print $1}' | xargs -n 1 kill -9
fi
else
echo no zombies found!
fi
;;
--cron)
stat=`ps ax | awk '{print $1}' | grep -v "PID" | xargs -n 1 ps lOp | grep -v "UID" | awk '{print"pid: "$3" *** parent_pid: "$4" *** status: "$10" *** process: "$13}' | grep ": Z"`
if ((${#stat} > 0));then
ps ax | awk '{print $1}' | grep -v "PID" | xargs -n 1 ps lOp | grep -v "UID" | awk '{print$4" status:"$10}' | grep "status:Z" | awk '{print $1}' | xargs -n 1 kill -9
echo `date`": killed some zombie proceses!" >> /var/log/zombies.log
fi
;;
*) echo 'usage: zombies {--cron|--admin}'
;;
esac
exit 0
Best thing to do is run this under cron so you'll be copying this script (assuming you have root privileges) to /bin and then make a cronjob to run it as often as you think it necessary to run.
Hope that helps.