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Date:      Mon, 13 Nov 2000 11:56:37 -0700 (PST)
From:      Nicole H <nicole@daemontech.com>
To:        "Brian O'Shea" <boshea@ricochet.net>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Log analysis program running under apache reboots server!
Message-ID:  <XFMail.001113115637.nicole@daemontech.com>
In-Reply-To: <20001113111837.J622@beastie.localdomain>

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On 13-Nov-00 Brian O'Shea wrote:
> Nicole,
> 
> Is it a panic, or does it just silently reboot?  If it's a panic,
> what is the panic message, or any other message on the console when
> the system crashes?  Also, can you get a crash dump? (see the
> dumpon(8) man page)
> 
> -brian
> 

 Silent reboot :(


  Nicole


> 
> On Mon, Nov 13, 2000 at 10:58:39AM -0800, Nicole Harrington wrote:
>> Greetings all.. 
>> 
>>   I have been trying to test an apache log analizing program called
>>   Nettracker
>>  (wwww.sane.com) the program seems nice except for the fact that it keeps
>>  rebooting/crashing the server. This would just be labeled crappy software
>>  except for the fact that I am running the software as user apache and have
>> setup process limits in login.conf and it is still able to reboot the
>> server.
>>  
>>   This seems like a real problem and security issue as I have setup limits
>>   in
>>  /etc/login.conf (see below) and the program is being run via CGI as user
>>  apache, yet it is still capable of rebooting the system. Seems like a nice
>>  hack
>>  to me.
>>  
>>   If anyone could check over my  login.conf settings below and make sure
>>   they
>>  are
>>  correct/ truly usefull, I would really appreciate it! Also any information
>>  on
>>  how this program could so easily reboot the server would be nice too.
>>  
>>    Thanks!!
>>  
>>  
>>     Nicole
>>  
>>  System is 4.1-STABLE and has 256 Megs of memory and 4X that of swap.
>>  
>>  apacheuser:\
>>          :manpath=/usr/share/man /usr/X11R6/man /usr/local/man:\
>>          :cputime=4h:\
>>          :datasize=64M:\
>>          :stacksize=4M:\
>>          :filesize=infinity:\
>>          :memoryuse=64M:\
>>          :priority=0:\
>>         :datasize-cur=32M:\
>>         :stacksize-cur=32M:\
>>         :coredumpsize-cur=0:\
>>         :maxmemorysize-cur=64M:\
>>         :memorylocked=32M:\
>>         :maxproc=128:\
>>         :openfiles=256:\
>>          :tc=standard:
>>  
>> ## standard - standard user defaults
>> ##
>>  standard:\
>>          :copyright=/etc/COPYRIGHT:\
>>          :welcome=/etc/motd:\
>>          :setenv=MAIL=/var/mail/$,BLOCKSIZE=K:\
>>          :path=~/bin /bin /usr/bin /usr/local/bin:\
>>          :manpath=/usr/share/man /usr/local/man:\
>>          :nologin=/var/run/nologin:\
>>          :cputime=1h30m:\
>>          :datasize=8M:\
>>          :stacksize=2M:\
>>          :memorylocked=4M:\
>>          :memoryuse=8M:\
>>          :filesize=8M:\
>>          :coredumpsize=8M:\
>>          :openfiles=24:\
>>          :maxproc=32:\
>>          :priority=0:\
>>          :requirehome:\
>>          :passwordtime=90d:\
>>          :umask=002:\
>>          :ignoretime@:\
>>          :tc=default:
>>  
>>  default:\
>>          :cputime=infinity:\
>>          :datasize-cur=22M:\
>>          :stacksize-cur=8M:\
>>          :memorylocked-cur=10M:\
>>          :memoryuse-cur=30M:\
>>          :filesize=infinity:\
>>          :coredumpsize=infinity:\
>>          :maxproc-cur=64:\
>>          :openfiles-cur=64:\
>>          :priority=0:\
>>          :requirehome@:\
>>          :umask=022:\
>>  
>>  
>> 
>> 
>> 
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> -- 
> Brian O'Shea
> boshea@ricochet.net
> 
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