Service Administration
The Runaway Process
250 pts
0 solves
medium
hands-on
A poorly written worker script at /opt/scripts/worker.sh spawns background processes
that never get cleaned up. It's set to run every minute via cron, and it has already
left 10 orphaned "sleep 9999" processes running.
Your tasks:
1. Kill all the orphaned "sleep 9999" processes
2. Fix the cron job so the worker script properly manages its processes
(either remove the cron entry or fix the script to clean up after itself)
The watcher checks that no "sleep 9999" processes are running AND that the
cron job has been addressed (removed or script fixed with cleanup logic).
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