I can tell, host-deny.sh and firewall-drop.sh remain running about 30 secs 
before stop, alerts bigger than 6 with an srcip will trigger 
active-response, if your installation is generating a bunch of this alerts 
that's why maybe you have a bunch of process regarding to this scripts.

On Monday, February 8, 2016 at 12:33:11 PM UTC+1, Pedro S wrote:
>
> OFC it is not a solution, I thought you were not sure what active-response 
> is and you were complaining about those scripts.
>
> Regarding to your problem, I am not sure why this processes remain in 
> Zombie status, i think by default both script should execute, block the IP 
> and after 600 seconds execute again and unblock the IP.
>
> Check /var/ossec/logs/active-respones.log maybe we can find something 
> usefull there.
>
>
>
> On Monday, February 8, 2016 at 11:40:11 AM UTC+1, Giorgio Biondi wrote:
>>
>> Hi Pedro,
>>
>> of course using active response.. the solution can't be 'not using this 
>> feature'..
>>
>> :-)
>>
>>
>>
>> 2016-02-08 11:36 GMT+01:00 Pedro S <[email protected]>:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Are you using active response? Those file are regarding to OSSEC 
>>> active-response, if you are not using it you can disable it editing 
>>> ossec.conf file:
>>>
>>>   <active-response>
>>>     <disabled>yes</disabled>
>>>   </active-response>
>>>
>>> Best regards,
>>>
>>> Pedro S.
>>>
>>> On Friday, February 5, 2016 at 9:17:48 AM UTC+1, Giorgio Biondi wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hi at all
>>>>
>>>> nobody have this behavior ?
>>>>
>>>> Good weekend
>>>>
>>>> Il giorno venerdì 22 gennaio 2016 11:57:46 UTC+1, Giorgio Biondi ha 
>>>> scritto:
>>>>>
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>
>>>>> I have some linuxbox with ossec installed and work fine.
>>>>> One of this have always some (or much more) process in status 'Z' 
>>>>> zombie 
>>>>>
>>>>> See this:
>>>>>
>>>>> USER       PID %CPU %MEM    VSZ   RSS TTY      STAT START   TIME 
>>>>> COMMAND
>>>>> root     25003  0.2  0.1 108212  1952 pts/0    S+   11:53   0:00 watch 
>>>>> ps aux | grep Z
>>>>> root     25416  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        Z    11:55   0:00 
>>>>> [host-deny.sh] <defunct>
>>>>> root     25417  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        Z    11:55   0:00 
>>>>> [firewall-drop.s] <defunct>
>>>>> root     25418  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        Z    11:55   0:00 
>>>>> [host-deny.sh] <defunct>
>>>>> root     25419  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        Z    11:55   0:00 
>>>>> [firewall-drop.s] <defunct>
>>>>> root     25482  0.0  0.0 106060  1248 pts/0    S+   11:55   0:00 sh -c 
>>>>> ps aux | grep Z
>>>>> root     25484  0.0  0.0 103256   860 pts/0    S+   11:55   0:00 grep Z
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> This process regarding ossec system.. apart this ossec system work 
>>>>> fine.. or seems fine..
>>>>>
>>>>> If stop service ossec I have a very huge load but this is a 'known 
>>>>> behaviur'.
>>>>>
>>>>> All the best.
>>>>>
>>>>> Giorgio Biondi.
>>>>>
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