Date: Fri, 2 Jun 2017 03:02:28 -0700 (MST) From: BBlister <bblister@gmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Wrong Handling of pid files (example: fcgiwrap) forces single user mode. Am I correct? Message-ID: <1496397748172-6189171.post@n6.nabble.com>
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Hello,
One of my servers (running 10.3-RELEASE-p18) faced a serious problem out of
the blue. It booted normally multiuser, but after a while it switched to
single user only, terminating all networking sevices (like SSHD). This was
done automatically. I was able to access it only via remote serial port.
I found out the culprit:
In my setup I have all the services disable in /etc/rc.conf to speed up the
booting process, and when the system is up, then a crontab entry for every
service like "@reboot (delay 120;/usr/local/etc/rc.d/fcgiwrap onerestart )"
issues the command to initiate the specific service.
All the services start from @reboot entries at crontab. But I discovered
that the init script for fcgiwrap (and possible other ports that use
similar rc files) has a serious bug, when the command 'onerestart' is
applied.
If the command line parameter onerestart is used, then this script first
tries to terminate the process and then restarts it. The problem is that in
the termination function has this code:
...
fcgiwrap_stop() {
fcgiwrap_pgrp=$(/bin/ps -o ppid= $(cat ${pidfile}))
...
The problem is that if the ${pidfile} does not exist then this command
returns the PID 1 among other PIDS, like this:
/bin/ps -o ppid= $(cat /var/run/fcgiwrap/fcgiwrap.pid)
cat: /var/run/fcgiwrap/fcgiwrap.pid: No such file or directory
72303
1
71730
72092
1
1
1
and then using a command kill -TERM -- -${fcgiwrap_pgrp}
terminates all these pids.
But, PID 1 is the /sbin/init and according to init(8)
...init will signal the original (PID 1) init as follows:
....
1 SIGTERM Go to single-user mode
So the fastcgiwrap sends SIGTERM to /sbin/init and then systems reverts to
single user mode.
The fix is to first check the existance of the file, like
if [ -f ${pidfile} ] ; then ....
and not just 'cat' and 'kill' whatever it returns.
Took me a while to debug it and found the solution, and I post it here to
help future admins...
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