[ic] Interchange 4.9.6 process randomly exiting.

[Stefan Hornburg]

On Mon, 17 Feb 2003 02:24:12 +0800
"Cameron" <ritontor@icenet.com.au> wrote:

> > > > I've just installed 4.9.6 on a new server, and it's periodically
> crashing,
> > > > leaving no trace of why/how/when in the error log(s). Here is the
> result
> > > of
> > > > a strace -p on the process id... It flips along on, looping and timing
> out
> > > > (where it says Timeout) until eventually, at the end, it is dying :)
> > > >
> > > > select(16, [7 8], NULL, NULL, {3, 0})   = 0 (Timeout)
> > > > time(NULL)                              = 1045380008
> > > > open("/var/run/interchange",
> O_RDONLY|O_NONBLOCK|O_LARGEFILE|O_DIRECTORY)
> > > =
> > > > 2
> > > > fstat64(2, {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=4096, ...}) = 0
> > > > fcntl64(0x2, 0x2, 0x1, 0x8e6e538)       = 0
> > > > getdents64(0x2, 0x9548b88, 0x1000, 0x4) = 312
> > > > getdents64(0x2, 0x9548b88, 0x1000, 0x4) = 0
> > > > close(2)                                = 0
> > > > select(16, [7 8], NULL, NULL, {3, 0})   = ? ERESTARTNOHAND (To be
> > > restarted)
> > > > +++ killed by SIGKILL +++
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
> > > Further to this, it's happening *EXACTLY* once every hour. i wrote a 12
> > > second perl script to restart IC when it dies, and yeah... it's dying
> almost
> > > to the second exactly one hour after it's started. This should be a big
> clue
> > > for someone who knows the guts of IC better than i do!
> >
> > That looks like Interchange is killed by another program, e.g. something
> run
> > by your provider if this isn't your machine.
> >
> > Bye
> >       Racke
> 
> well, it is my machine, i got a dedicated server... i've looked in the
> crontab, nothing too obvious in there. i'll talk to support though, see if
> they're doing something deliberate here. i can't imagine what though. they
> certainly SHOULDN'T be doing anything...

Did you look in all crontabs ? If you don't find anything there (watch your
system logs too !), check on incoming connections at the times where the
crashes occur.

Bye
     Racke