[Asterisk-Users] asterisk and defunct perl procs

[Rich Adamson]

Scott,

I'm relatively new to * and have not done anything with AGI specifically
(unless the default installation is doing something that I'm not aware
of). So far, everything that I've done with * is from an educational
perspective attempting to learn/understand it, etc,

Rich

> Yes, I've been reasonably happy with RedHat 9 too.
> 
> The only problem I had was the defunct (zombie) process issue.  This only
> happened when I called an external AGI program (mine are in Perl).  Are you
> saying that you don't have this problem after returning from AGI programs?
> If so, maybe RedHat has solved their process threading issue.
> 
> > 
> > FWIW, I just immplemented * on a RH9 box using the CVS 
> > without any problems
> > whatsoever. The RH9 box was built from CD's as a workstation 
> > (with everything
> > installed), up2date ran to bring it reasonably current, etc. 
> > I had installed
> > "ser" a few weeks ago and it worked properly as well. Ser was 
> > shutdown (still
> > remains installed) and * is running now.
> > 
> > I did not have to export anything or do anything special with 
> > the system other
> > then to ensure the running kernel and its "matching" source 
> > code was installed.
> > That was required due to the Digium X100P card installation 
> > needs, otherwise
> > * installed and ran correctly the first time.
> > 
> > ------------------------
> > > Yes, this is RH9. Thank you for the info.
> > > 
> > > On Fri, Sep 12, 2003 at 02:59:46PM -0700, Scott Stingel wrote:
> > > > If you're running RedHat 9, there is a known problem.
> > > > 
> > > > Try executing the following line in the shell before 
> > starting asterisk:
> > > > 
> > > > export LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.4.1
> > > > 
> > > > Hope this works!
> > > > 
> > > > -Scott
> > > > 
> > > > Scott M. Stingel 
> > > <snip>