I'm using chaosreader in standalone mode (-S 5). The processing works great, but chaosreader seems to leave defunct tcpdump processes after every 5min :( ps fax output: 24907 ? Ss 0:00 SCREEN -d -m -S chaosreader chaosreader -S 5 -p 80 --index --noraw --noudp --noicmp --ipaddr 10.6.1.3 --max 512k --filter -p -i ethIn 24908 pts/3 Ss+ 10:52 \_ /usr/bin/perl /usr/bin/chaosreader -S 5 -p 80 --index --noraw --noudp --noicmp --ipaddr 10.6.1.3 --max 512k --filter -p -i ethIn 24914 pts/3 Z+ 0:03 \_ [tcpdump] <defunct> 15801 pts/3 Z+ 0:00 \_ [tcpdump] <defunct> 14133 pts/3 Z+ 0:01 \_ [tcpdump] <defunct> 9428 pts/3 Z+ 0:02 \_ [tcpdump] <defunct> 6508 pts/3 Z+ 0:00 \_ [tcpdump] <defunct> 6522 pts/3 Z+ 0:01 \_ [tcpdump] <defunct> 6524 pts/3 Z+ 0:00 \_ [tcpdump] <defunct> 6538 pts/3 Z+ 0:00 \_ [tcpdump] <defunct> 6540 pts/3 Z+ 0:00 \_ [tcpdump] <defunct> 6554 pts/3 Z+ 0:00 \_ [tcpdump] <defunct> 6556 pts/3 Z+ 0:00 \_ [tcpdump] <defunct> 6572 pts/3 Z+ 0:00 \_ [tcpdump] <defunct> 6596 pts/3 Z+ 0:00 \_ [tcpdump] <defunct> 6610 pts/3 Z+ 0:00 \_ [tcpdump] <defunct> 6612 pts/3 Z+ 0:00 \_ [tcpdump] <defunct> 6626 pts/3 Z+ 0:00 \_ [tcpdump] <defunct> 6628 pts/3 Z+ 0:00 \_ [tcpdump] <defunct> 6642 pts/3 Z+ 0:00 \_ [tcpdump] <defunct> 6644 pts/3 Z+ 0:01 \_ [tcpdump] <defunct> 6658 pts/3 Z+ 0:01 \_ [tcpdump] <defunct> 6660 pts/3 Z+ 0:01 \_ [tcpdump] <defunct> 6674 pts/3 Z+ 0:00 \_ [tcpdump] <defunct> 6676 pts/3 Z+ 0:01 \_ [tcpdump] <defunct> 6721 pts/3 Z+ 0:01 \_ [tcpdump] <defunct>
Fixed in CVS. Please wait for the update to propagate to the mirrors and remerge chaosreader. Thanks for reporting the problem :)