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Date:      Wed, 23 May 2007 21:32:06 -0700
From:      Garrett Cooper <youshi10@u.washington.edu>
To:        PeterPluta <peter@placidpublishing.net>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Security Run Output Questions
Message-ID:  <46551546.7000400@u.washington.edu>
In-Reply-To: <20070523202813.GA3705@slackbox.xs4all.nl>
References:  <10771250.post@talk.nabble.com> <20070523202813.GA3705@slackbox.xs4all.nl>

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Roland Smith wrote:
> On Wed, May 23, 2007 at 12:40:19PM -0700, PeterPluta wrote:
>> 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. 
>>
>> 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

Are you running CURRENT and did you update to GCC 4.2 and install httpd 
lately? If so, you need to read a few threads on the current@ list 
pertaining to GCC 4.2 written in the past 1-2 weeks.

-Garrett



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