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Date:      Mon, 13 Nov 2000 12:03:49 -0700 (PST)
From:      Nicole <nicole@unixgirl.com>
To:        Nicole H <nicole@daemontech.com>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, "Brian O'Shea" <boshea@ricochet.net>
Subject:   Re: Log analysis program running under apache reboots server!
Message-ID:  <XFMail.001113120349.nicole@unixgirl.com>
In-Reply-To: <XFMail.001113115637.nicole@daemontech.com>

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On 13-Nov-00 Nicole H wrote:
> 
> 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 :(

 I hate to respond to my own message.. But the server is remote.. But there is
nothing in the logs afterwards.. and nothing appears on the screen when it
occurs.  

   Nicole


> 
> 
>   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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