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Why do processes spawned by cron end up defunct?

I have some processes showing up as <defunct> in top (and ps). I've boiled things down from the real scripts and programs. In my crontab: * * * * * /tmp/launcher.sh /tmp/tester.sh The contents of launcher.sh (which is of course marked executable): #!/bin/bash # the real script does a little argument processing here "$@" The conte...

init never reaping zombie/defunct processes

Hi, On my Fedora Core 9 webserver with kernel 2.6.18, init isn't reaping zombie processes. This would be bearable if it wasn't for the process table eventually reaching an upper limit where no new processes can be allocated. Sample output of ps -el | grep 'Z': F S UID PID PPID C PRI NI ADDR SZ WCHAN TTY TIME CMD 5 Z ...

How do I identify and eliminate unused CSS styles from my bloated stylesheet?

I have a legacy stylesheet that is now full of unused styles. The problem is identifying the necessary from the unnecessary. Are there any tools to help with this? ...