Re: [BAD] the whole server down with a red-alert-like attack

2002-01-25 Thread Russell Coker
On Sat, 26 Jan 2002 00:17, Peter Billson wrote: > > IMHO something that runs every minute should not be in cron, even > > something that runs every 5 minutes possibly shouldn't be in cron. > > Could you tell me why that is so? I often run things from cron that > run every 5 mins and have never r

Re: [BAD] the whole server down with a red-alert-like attack

2002-01-25 Thread Radek Hnilica
On Fri, Jan 25, 2002 at 08:17:31AM -0500, Peter Billson wrote: > > IMHO something that runs every minute should not be in cron, even something > > that runs every 5 minutes possibly shouldn't be in cron. > > Could you tell me why that is so? I often run things from cron that > run every 5 mins

Re: [BAD] the whole server down with a red-alert-like attack

2002-01-25 Thread Peter Billson
> IMHO something that runs every minute should not be in cron, even something > that runs every 5 minutes possibly shouldn't be in cron. Could you tell me why that is so? I often run things from cron that run every 5 mins and have never run into a problem... but then again I often do stupid thi

Re: [BAD] the whole server down with a red-alert-like attack

2002-01-25 Thread Radek Hnilica
On Fri, Jan 25, 2002 at 10:28:56AM +1100, Russell Coker wrote: > IMHO something that runs every minute should not be in cron, even something > that runs every 5 minutes possibly shouldn't be in cron. :) s/should not/must not/ if I do't want problems Yeah, I made a painful experience myself. >

Re: [BAD] the whole server down with a red-alert-like attack

2002-01-24 Thread Russell Coker
On Thu, 24 Jan 2002 22:16, Radek Hnilica wrote: > I made the same experience with some testing script on one of my > routers. I run that script from cron to often. When the conditions > were good, the one run end before cron run the next. But once the [...] > I resolved my problem with not runn

Re: [BAD] the whole server down with a red-alert-like attack

2002-01-24 Thread staf wagemakers
On Thu, Jan 24, 2002 at 11:43:05AM +0100, alexis bory wrote: > > This morning my litlle server (potato, apache 1.3.9) was down. No > webservices, no ssh, nothing but ping :( > > apache error.log > > [Thu Jan 24 06:10:59 2002] [error] [client 212.37.199.145] File does not > exist: /var/www///scr

Re: [BAD] the whole server down with a red-alert-like attack

2002-01-24 Thread Radek Hnilica
On Thu, Jan 24, 2002 at 11:58:57AM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > On Thu, 24 Jan 2002, alexis bory wrote: > > > This morning my litlle server (potato, apache 1.3.9) was down. No > > webservices, no ssh, nothing but ping :( > > > > Jan 24 06:13:54 sfa01 kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages fa

Re: [BAD] the whole server down with a red-alert-like attack

2002-01-24 Thread Robert Waldner
On Thu, 24 Jan 2002 11:58:57 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >On Thu, 24 Jan 2002, alexis bory wrote: > >> This morning my litlle server (potato, apache 1.3.9) was down. No >> webservices, no ssh, nothing but ping :( >> >> Jan 24 06:13:54 sfa01 kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for kswapd.

Re: [BAD] the whole server down with a red-alert-like attack

2002-01-24 Thread endre
On Thu, 24 Jan 2002, alexis bory wrote: > This morning my litlle server (potato, apache 1.3.9) was down. No > webservices, no ssh, nothing but ping :( > > Jan 24 06:13:54 sfa01 kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for kswapd... upgrade your kernel. > Jan 24 06:15:59 sfa01 kernel: VM: killi