[BlueOnyx:05493] Cced hangs, admsrv & httpd down @ 4am

[Syd van Gastel]

Hello Jeff,

Had the same Yesterday, looks like a problem with yum trying to update, after a reboot yum clean all, yum update the problem was gone.

Kind regards

Syd


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>   1. [BlueOnyx:05490] Re: Cced hangs, admsrv & httpd down @ 4am
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> Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2010 16:19:57 +0100
> From: Jeff Jones <jeffrhysjones at mac.com>
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> Just thought I would post an update to this issue.
> 
> After going through the monitoring system - I have noticed that from 4pm yesterday, this BX box had been generating two new 'mystery processes' every 15 minutes - which did not die.
> 
> So at 4pm there were 113 processes (that the box seems to run most of the time).
> 
> By 4am this morning - this had risen, 2 every 15 mins, in an almost totally linear fashion, to 232 running processes. 
> 
> At this point Cceed, HTTP & AdmServ died, but the server carried on spawning processes - until I restarted the entire server.
> 
> I guess had I looked at exactly what processes were running before I restarted - I might have got a clue as to the cause - something to remember for next time.
> 
> I have gone back to 4pm in the messages log, and again nothing much in there.....
> 
> Any suggestions of where else to look?
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> Jeff
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> Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2010 10:44:57 -0500
> From: Gerald Waugh <gwaugh at frontstreetnetworks.com>
> Subject: [BlueOnyx:05491] Re: Cced hangs, admsrv & httpd down @ 4am
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> On Tue, 2010-09-28 at 16:19 +0100, Jeff Jones wrote:
>> Just thought I would post an update to this issue.
>> 
>> After going through the monitoring system - I have noticed that from 4pm yesterday, this BX box had been generating two new 'mystery processes' every 15 minutes - which did not die.
>> 
>> So at 4pm there were 113 processes (that the box seems to run most of the time).
>> 
>> By 4am this morning - this had risen, 2 every 15 mins, in an almost totally linear fashion, to 232 running processes. 
>> 
>> At this point Cceed, HTTP & AdmServ died, but the server carried on spawning processes - until I restarted the entire server.
>> 
>> I guess had I looked at exactly what processes were running before I restarted - I might have got a clue as to the cause - something to remember for next time.
>> 
>> I have gone back to 4pm in the messages log, and again nothing much in there.....
>> 
>> Any suggestions of where else to look?
>> 
> 
> what's in /tmp
> recently worked on a hacked server
> had ICEICE, nc and nc.1 in /tmp
> 
>> 
>> Gerald
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