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Date:      Wed, 23 May 2007 22:28:13 +0200
From:      Roland Smith <rsmith@xs4all.nl>
To:        PeterPluta <peter@placidpublishing.net>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Security Run Output Questions
Message-ID:  <20070523202813.GA3705@slackbox.xs4all.nl>
In-Reply-To: <10771250.post@talk.nabble.com>
References:  <10771250.post@talk.nabble.com>

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On Wed, May 23, 2007 at 12:40:19PM -0700, PeterPluta wrote:
>=20
> I see this quite regularly. What exactly is the http process doing? I'm
> guessing this is the master process stopping and restarting when I rotate
> logs or something. Can anyone confirm? There is usally more processes, 10=
-15
> or more.=20
>=20
> kernel log messages:
> +++ /tmp/security.ioLB2PiJ	Wed May 23 03:01:42 2007
> +pid 30865 (httpd), uid 80: exited on signal 4

According to signal(3), signal 4 is SIGILL; illegal instruction.

Not sure what triggers that. Maybe a stack overflow bug that writes a
bogus value to a return address?

Roland
--=20
R.F.Smith                                   http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/
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