what is Phantom

venkat n · Post by **venkat n** » Thu Jul 21, 2005 3:41 am

ps -ef |grep phantom

actually what is phantom and what it means why thisis used for identify dsjobs PID s and locks

roy · Post by **roy** » Thu Jul 21, 2005 3:46 am

Hi,
1. use of the search this forum offers should have poped up the answer hence your post was redundant.
2. sever posts are better posted in the server forum.

3. phantom is the name you'll see for DS jobs as background processes running on your machine.

IHTH,

ArndW · Post by **ArndW** » Thu Jul 21, 2005 3:47 am

The "phantom" is an archaic term (coming from the UniVerse implementation on PRIMOS) which just means a background process, i.e. one not associated with a terminal/keyboard.

The PHantom processes and not the launching process are the ones actually doing the work, so they hold the locks.

ray.wurlod · Post by **ray.wurlod** » Thu Jul 21, 2005 4:37 pm

Hence the directory (folder) name &PH&, where phantom processes keep log files of their activities.