WTF are "Plink Zombies"?

[Parrot]

Well, what are "plink zombies"?

[imported_Enforcer]

Well easy to explain ;-)

If a program is running but is not used by anyone you call it a zombie at linux.
Something like that can happen if you use ssh access to your logfile because i use a program called plink to make it possible.
What happens now is if ServerWatch crash (well i hope that dont happen *G*) it can happen that the program is still running in the background.

What ServerWatch does at the startup is checking for a plink.exe that is _not_ used by ServerWatch so the guess is it is running because of a crash and you can kill it.

But if you are running some ServerWatch Servers and use ssh for some of them you will have false alarms - i hope you can imagine now why.

[Parrot]

Just wondering. Every time I click "search for plink zombies" I find them and kill them.. but don't know if it was actually doing anything or not.