Defunct Process info?

bahama · 09-01-2007, 11:04 AM

I want to see the process info for a defunct process such as its data or actually what commands were run to make it a process (and defunct). Is there like a system-wide sniffer or process sniffer or something that can tell me more about this process?

Thank you.

colucix · 09-01-2007, 12:34 PM

Some valuable information may be obtained using commands ps and lsof. For example

Code:

ps -eO user -H   #or 
ps axjf

shows the process tree. The information here is highly customizable by the amount of options provided by ps. You can discover the parent-child processes relationship. If you have a defunct process, you can establish who is the parent and then the open files, by its Process ID:

Code:

lsof -p <PID>

Hope this will help a little.

AwesomeMachine · 09-02-2007, 04:22 PM

cat /proc/proc