When my production Solaris server is active and I run ps aef on it, I notice that there are multiple copies of the WHSERV processes running. What is this all about ?
This is normal behavior. What you are seeing is the manner by which the Warehouse server handles remote client requests for service in Unix. The primordial WHSERV listens on a well-known port (default 1610) and will fork/exec a copy of itself for every remote connection request it receives from a Warehouse client. WHSERV then hands off the socket connection associated with this request to the newly-created child process. The child WHSERV process transacts with the remote client and gracefully terminates when the client closes the connection. Tip : based on the ps command, a quick way to distinguish the primordial WHSERV from its child processes is that the former runs as root whereas the latter run under a client login id.
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