Subject: can the following: F[ping] <defunct> causes the problem I am having with argus?

From: "Rionel.J Jeudy" <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 25 May 2006 11:47:18 -0400

Does the following has anything to do with argus, since argus marks
some of the nodes down when they they're supposed to be up

root@NetMon:~# ps aux
root      4801  0.1  0.0     0    0 ?        Z    11:30   0:00 [fping] <defunct>