Jay Leafey

More testing has shown that the problem only occurs with user incrontab entries, the system incrontab entries in /etc/incron.d/ do not cause processes to be left in the zombie state.

OK, didn't mean to close this! Still and issue, but at least I can work around it now.

I just downloaded the source RPM from EPEL and compared the sources, it appears that the EPEL package was built from sources that did not include the fix in that...

This just keeps getting better and better! I rebuilt the RPM using the current sources from Github and reinstalled, but the behaviour did not change, still getting zombies with every...

The ticket number for this issue is 1656939 on Red Hat's Bugzilla system, which covers Fedora and EPEL as well as Red Hat's commercial products. [https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1656939](url)

As a test I rebuilt incrond and incrontab from source and copied them over the files provided in the EPEL RPM (/usr/sbin/incrond and /usr/bin/incrontab). After restarting the daemon and running...

Fedora has new packages for 0.5.12 in the testing repository for EL7, Fedora 28, and Fedora 29 to include the no-zombie fix from upstream. The new packages are marked 0.5.12-9,...