From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 7 15:54:54 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BAAAA16A4CF for ; Thu, 7 Oct 2004 15:54:54 +0000 (GMT) Received: from out2.smtp.messagingengine.com (out2.smtp.messagingengine.com [66.111.4.26]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6D4BC43D39 for ; Thu, 7 Oct 2004 15:54:53 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from nkinkade@fastmail.fm) X-Sasl-enc: jq2vzQC/FBisVnrwMBao2w 1097164492 Received: from gentoo-npk.bmp.ub (unknown [206.27.244.136]) by www.fastmail.fm (Postfix) with ESMTP id 24FCFC2F7BC; Thu, 7 Oct 2004 11:54:50 -0400 (EDT) Received: from nkinkade by gentoo-npk.bmp.ub with local (Exim 4.21) id 1CFaZO-0000sf-7L; Thu, 07 Oct 2004 09:52:42 -0600 Date: Thu, 7 Oct 2004 09:52:42 -0600 From: Nathan Kinkade To: Danny Howard Message-ID: <20041007155242.GI3633@gentoo-npk.bmp.ub> Mail-Followup-To: Danny Howard , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <4165533E.1080905@servercentral.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="trRLnZT3leHHTjS+" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4165533E.1080905@servercentral.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i Sender: cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Remote terminal sessions lock up and daemons flake out X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: Nathan Kinkade List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 07 Oct 2004 15:54:54 -0000 --trRLnZT3leHHTjS+ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Oct 07, 2004 at 09:31:26AM -0500, Danny Howard wrote: > This last problem has started to happen only lately. >=20 > I log in from my FreeBSD workstation, on an xterm, via ssh to a remote=20 > machine running 4.9. I often sudo -s. I'm using tcsh. Lately, I leave= =20 > the session for a while and come back and the session is locked up. I=20 > can't exit or anything. I kill the xterm and restart. I reconnect to=20 > the box, and there's no hanging session ... any advice? >=20 > Possibly related. This is a Plesk box. The httpd and spamd frequently= =20 > fail. I've got a duct-tape script in cron to check these demons and=20 > restart. Pointers on where I might look, perhaps in sysctl, to pinpoint= =20 > what might be happening? >=20 > 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 --=20 PGP Public Key: pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=3Dget&search=3D0xD8527E49 --trRLnZT3leHHTjS+ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFBZWZKO0ZIEthSfkkRAtfbAKCKfQE1F8WXhEAVydymjoWlDrlElQCeLYZA xDK+XaT2/XQAZ8Vt080bibg= =Mh7i -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --trRLnZT3leHHTjS+--