From owner-freebsd-security Wed May 23 1:37:54 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from kalaid.f2f.com.ua (kalaid.f2f.com.ua [62.149.0.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D63F037B424 for ; Wed, 23 May 2001 01:37:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from never@mail.uic-in.net) Received: from mail.uic-in.net (root@[212.35.189.4]) by kalaid.f2f.com.ua (8.11.3/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f4N8cna86135; Wed, 23 May 2001 11:39:02 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from never@mail.uic-in.net) Received: (from never@localhost) by mail.uic-in.net (8.11.3/8.11.3) id f4N8ajG19230; Wed, 23 May 2001 11:36:46 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from never) Date: Wed, 23 May 2001 11:36:45 +0300 From: "Alexandr P. Kovalenko" To: Michael Radzewitz Cc: "'security@freebsd.org'" Subject: Re: apache_logs/system hang up Message-ID: <20010523113645.A19181@uic-in.net> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from michael.radzewitz@freenet-ag.de on Wed, May 23, 2001 at 10:00:46AM +0200 Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hello, Michael Radzewitz! On Wed, May 23, 2001 at 10:00:46AM +0200, you wrote: > Hello Marc, > > the system wasn't able to do anything so that i had to reset it by hand. > Tonight the same thing happend. Acctually I would think there must be > something wrong on my site. The characters contain nothing else > than hundreds of these: ^@^@^@ > They do not look like a typically binary file. It's always the same > corner of the internet which one of my users visit and which causes the > trouble one minute later. > > Today I plugged a monitor in to see what happend and i got the message: > > login: unable to login > > followed by a kernel panic and the normal core dump output of a linux > system. > > As I mentioned before I thing there is something wrong on my site > but I am a little bit concerned about the: unable to login message. > I will monitor this problem until the end of the week - maybe i get some > more information about it. Later than I will swap the system to FreeBSD. Sorry, what apache versions are you running and what are uname -a's ? /me have similar situation, periodically machine locks up. When on last second I'm able to run top I see that swap is filled and apache is about 350Mb.... Maybe it is common problem/security issue -- NEVE-RIPE ICQ: 36925929 http://www.nevermind.kiev.ua/ Powered by caffeine. Made with beer. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message