Date: Thu, 7 Oct 2004 09:52:42 -0600 From: Nathan Kinkade <nkinkade@ub.edu.bz> To: Danny Howard <djh@servercentral.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Remote terminal sessions lock up and daemons flake out Message-ID: <20041007155242.GI3633@gentoo-npk.bmp.ub> In-Reply-To: <4165533E.1080905@servercentral.net> References: <4165533E.1080905@servercentral.net>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Thu, Oct 07, 2004 at 09:31:26AM -0500, Danny Howard wrote: > This last problem has started to happen only lately. > > I log in from my FreeBSD workstation, on an xterm, via ssh to a remote > machine running 4.9. I often sudo -s. I'm using tcsh. Lately, I leave > the session for a while and come back and the session is locked up. I > can't exit or anything. I kill the xterm and restart. I reconnect to > the box, and there's no hanging session ... any advice? > > Possibly related. This is a Plesk box. The httpd and spamd frequently > fail. I've got a duct-tape script in cron to check these demons and > restart. Pointers on where I might look, perhaps in sysctl, to pinpoint > what might be happening? > > Thanks, > -danny Could this be an idle-timeout on the server and the connection isn't closing properly? Perhaps you are behind some sort of stateful firewall that drops dynamic rules after a certain period of idle time? Nathan -- PGP Public Key: pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0xD8527E49 [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFBZWZKO0ZIEthSfkkRAtfbAKCKfQE1F8WXhEAVydymjoWlDrlElQCeLYZA xDK+XaT2/XQAZ8Vt080bibg= =Mh7i -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----help
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