On Wed, 19 Jan 2000, Andreas Siegert wrote:
Looking through /usr/X11R6/bin/netscape I found something like chmod -f -R go-rxw $HN & where $HN is $HOME/.netscape
The chmod seems to be ok, I wonder why it went into Zombie state....
Aha, the scripts ends by doing 'exec' on netscape -- so if chmod does not
finish until exec, the shell is replaced by the netscape process.. and the
netscape process is not aware of its illegimate child. Once the child
processes finishes and dies, it will thus wander around in a zombie state
:)
One way of fixing it is to add "wait" before running exec. Or don't
run the chmod in the background -- but that will make startup slower, if
you have a lot of files in .netscape (like a big disk cache).
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Erwin Andreasen Herlev, Denmark