From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Nov 8 20:23:32 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA06530 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Sun, 8 Nov 1998 20:23:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from marathon.simons-rock.edu (marathon.simons-rock.edu [208.144.215.19]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id UAA06494 for ; Sun, 8 Nov 1998 20:23:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from psion@geekspace.com) Received: (qmail 20175 invoked from network); 9 Nov 1998 05:19:39 -0000 Received: from cwilliams.student.simons-rock.edu (HELO geekspace.com) (207.51.114.13) by marathon.simons-rock.edu with SMTP; 9 Nov 1998 05:19:39 -0000 Message-ID: <364669F0.F859EFBB@geekspace.com> Date: Sun, 08 Nov 1998 23:05:04 -0500 From: Chris Williams X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (WinNT; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: tcpdump bringing down machine!?! Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I had tcpdump running, dumping to a file on its very own seperate slice. It apparently filled up the slice, and that slowly brought the machine down until it rebooted itself...WHY? I mean, I know it was a stupid thing to let happen, but why didn't tcpdump just quit, and how did it start bringing down other things? Here is df afterwords: /dev/wd0s1a 254302 32306 201652 14% / /dev/wd0s1f 4069342 1708272 2035524 46% /usr /dev/wd0s1e 254302 5278 228680 2% /var /dev/wd0s1g 1017310 1017282 -81356 109% /dump procfs 8 8 0 100% /proc And here is from /var/log/messages: Nov 8 00:30:06 jello /kernel: ed1: promiscuous mode enabled Nov 8 02:58:46 jello /kernel: pid 22236 (tcpdump), uid 0 on /dump: file system full Nov 8 02:59:17 jello last message repeated 2531 times Nov 8 03:01:18 jello last message repeated 10241 times ...[lots of messages like this]... Nov 8 08:51:30 jello last message repeated 1251 times Nov 8 08:59:14 jello last message repeated 630 times Nov 8 08:59:32 jello /kernel: pid 22700 (genesis), uid 1001: exited on signal 1 Nov 8 08:59:38 jello /kernel: pid 22236 (tcpdump), uid 0 on /dump: file system full Nov 8 09:00:00 jello /kernel: pid 22702 (cron), uid 0: exited on signal 11 Nov 8 09:00:00 jello /kernel: pid 22701 (cron), uid 0: exited on signal 11 Nov 8 09:00:04 jello /kernel: pid 22236 (tcpdump), uid 0 on /dump: file system full Nov 8 09:00:53 jello last message repeated 2 times Nov 8 09:02:46 jello last message repeated 34 times ...[more of same, more cron failures]... Nov 8 12:37:49 jello last message repeated 32 times Nov 8 12:38:49 jello last message repeated 3 times Nov 8 12:39:01 jello /kernel: pid 22756 (moo), uid 1001: exited on signal 11 Nov 8 12:39:01 jello /kernel: pid 207 (moo), uid 1001: exited on signal 11 Nov 8 12:39:01 jello /kernel: pid 19016 (moo), uid 1001: exited on signal 11 Nov 8 12:39:01 jello init: fatal signal: Segmentation fault Nov 8 12:39:01 jello /kernel: pid 22236 (tcpdump), uid 0 on /dump: file system full Nov 8 12:39:02 jello /kernel: pid 22255 (xterm), uid 0: exited on signal 11 Nov 8 12:39:02 jello /kernel: pid 19097 (xterm), uid 0: exited on signal 11 (co re dumped) Nov 8 12:39:14 jello /kernel: pid 22236 (tcpdump), uid 0 on /dump: file system full !!![reboot]!!! Nov 8 12:40:47 jello /kernel: Copyright (c) 1992-1998 FreeBSD Inc. -- -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version: 3.12 GCS/IT/M/P/S d?- s+:- a17>? C++++$ UBLS++$>++++ P--- L++>+++ E---- W+++$ N- !o K? w@$ !O M-- V-- PS+++ PE Y+ PGP- t+ 5-(++) X+ R+ tv>! b+++ DI+++ D+ G++ e* h!*>++ r%>++ !y->$ ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message