Date: Sun, 23 Apr 2000 12:30:15 -0600 (CST) From: Ryan Thompson <ryan@sasknow.com> To: Miguel Ruiz <darkcolony@MailAndNews.com> Cc: freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: your mail Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0004231224280.55888-100000@ren.sasknow.com> In-Reply-To: <39087384@MailAndNews.com>
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Miguel Ruiz wrote to freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG: > Hey all: > > I was looking at this server, and it was generating a bunch of natd > processes. A bunch = 2 or 3? 20 or 30? 200 or 300? > 1000? In the first case (or two), I would suspect human error.. I.e., an administrator manually running too many natd processes where kill -HUP should be used. In the latter cases, I would suspect someone has created an automated script that was perhaps designed to keep natd running in the event it stopped, but their script obviously has some issues :-) > To the best of my memory there should only be one natd process > running. I tried to correct this and made a mistake and did a killall -9 > natd. This machine needs natd to be running or else it shut down all ip > interfaces. Oops. Nothing is hard coded all they have to do is reboot. The good news is if natd forces the link down for some reason, an ifconfig <linkdev> UP will generally reset it. > The problem is we need to find out why it was creating multiple natd > process. I've never witnessed this personally... Perhaps it was operator error? (Ran natd again instead of kill -HUP, or perhaps there is some homemade script that is responsible for the extra processes). > Does anyone know how 2 shutdown the xtra processes? You should be able to kill the extras individually by process ID, unless there are hundreds or thousands of them, in which case killall -9 natd IS the way to go. > thanx! > > M1k3 Virtually yours, - Ryan -- Ryan Thompson <ryan@sasknow.com> Systems Administrator, Accounts Phone: +1 (306) 664-1161 SaskNow Technologies http://www.sasknow.com #106-380 3120 8th St E Saskatoon, SK S7H 0W2 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message
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