Date: Wed, 28 Oct 2015 08:51:25 -0600 From: Alan Somers <asomers@freebsd.org> To: =?UTF-8?Q?Ulrich_Sp=C3=B6rlein?= <uspoerlein@gmail.com> Cc: NGie Cooper <yaneurabeya@gmail.com>, FreeBSD CURRENT <freebsd-current@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Coverity down? Message-ID: <CAOtMX2g8kK6EtNOEzATQ-sc7MRt_%2BLoR0LC4Pxv9AhUqcsnsqA@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <CAJ9axoSheuh=4AO5q%2B0h%2BdSjhiaxRCzVYiha_4HyPGuVgLHNZA@mail.gmail.com> References: <CAOtMX2jQtK%2BhGsNS1xjqYS5Yaq%2BW8s9=0hb-k5CD%2BeZVvq_1Ww@mail.gmail.com> <CAGHfRMAfCFt-wcitxjXLBrnML5MD2dZezBnMn5rvOQ0ezVc76g@mail.gmail.com> <CAJ9axoSheuh=4AO5q%2B0h%2BdSjhiaxRCzVYiha_4HyPGuVgLHNZA@mail.gmail.com>
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On Wed, Oct 28, 2015 at 4:43 AM, Ulrich Sp=C3=B6rlein <uspoerlein@gmail.com= > wrote: > 2015-10-28 3:44 GMT+01:00 NGie Cooper <yaneurabeya@gmail.com>: >> On Tue, Oct 27, 2015 at 1:11 PM, Alan Somers <asomers@freebsd.org> wrote= : >>> I just noticed that our last Coverity scan happened on either July-6 >>> (according to my inbox) or June-26 (according to Coverity's website). >>> Prior to that, we seemed to get scanned about once per week. Does >>> anybody know why we haven't been scanned for so long? I can't figure >>> out what triggers a scan, but it seems like it should've happened by >>> now. >> >> +1 >> >> Is it due to svn moving? > > No, it's a stupid bug in our crond and/or nslcd and LDAP handling. The > setup is as follows: > > - a server running 24/7 with `uqs` being a user ID that is stored in LDAP > - a cronjob is set up to run coverity scan twice a week > - nslcd is running and getent passwd will list all local and LDAP users > - <bug happens here> > - cron somehow no longer sees any of the LDAP users and thus is not > executing any user crontabs, I think this is due to the connection to > nslcd breaking > - restarting crond fixes that (for a while) > > So my box was last restarted 94d ago, which was July 26 and it seems > that it even that reboot and cron restart didn't help. I've now put in > a crontab entry, to have cron restart cron daily (no kidding), let's > see if that fixes things. > > Though the best option would be to move this off my box, run it with a > local account via cron that should be more robust. Or someone could > fix our cron, because this is really annoying. > > Anyway, thanks for letting me know, expect some more coverity runs by > the end of the week! > > Cheers, > Uli Looking forward to it. Muchas gracias, Ulrich. -Alan
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