Re: {bb} bbd incoming message refused

[Philip Clark <bblist@cannae.uklinux.net>]

On Thu, 2005-12-15 at 21:50, Ricardo (Tru64 User) wrote:
> Hi,
> I started with a new security file...inserted even
> just a couple of ips, same problem. Incoming messages
> refused. As long as file is there, called security,
> all messages get denied. And, it keeps on starting
> various instances of bbd...to the point of almost
> locking system. I watch it under "ps -ef|grep bbd|wc
> -l" go the way to 200+ before i killed it....sample
> below. Not sure really what is going on here. 
> 
> bbuser   21282 17440  0 11:14 ?        00:00:00
> /opt/bb1.9h-btf/bb1.9h-btf/bin/bbd
> bbuser   21283 17440  0 11:14 ?        00:00:00
> /opt/bb1.9h-btf/bb1.9h-btf/bin/bbd
> bbuser   21284 17440  0 11:14 ?        00:00:00
> /opt/bb1.9h-btf/bb1.9h-btf/bin/bbd
> bbuser   21285 17440  0 11:14 ?        00:00:00
> /opt/bb1.9h-btf/bb1.9h-btf/bin/bbd
> bbuser   21316 21287  0 11:14 pts/0    00:00:00 grep
> bbd
> -bash-2.05b$ ps -ef|grep bbd|wc -l
>      2
> -bash-2.05b$ ps -ef|grep bbd|wc -l
>      20
> -bash-2.05b$ ps -ef|grep bbd|wc -l
>      24
> -bash-2.05b$ ps -ef|grep bbd|wc -l
>      42

The increasing number of bbd processes might just be another
symptom of the same problem. If you let the list know what
flavour of Linux you are using, someone might be able to
tell you if it has a known problem with "zombie" processes.
Unless you are also seeing an increasing number when the
security file is absent, I'd ignore that for now.

To get more detail on the security problem, you should
probably now enable the DEBUG switch in the bbd.c file
and re-compile. That will dump a lot of information into
the BBOUT file, so don't run it for too long.

If that does not provide enlightenment, there is also a
FULLDEBUG preprocessor flag in bbd.c. That should give
you even more information and should show each comparison
that is made against the security file.

Cheers, Phil.



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