Thanks Michael Arnoff and Michael Stauber for this. Unfortunately, it did not work but I do have some observations.
First, I really didn't see anything wrong with the output. However, just for the heck, I did go ahead and delete the two databases. When I went to the GUI, it just hung there. It never showed anything and what I noticed is that immediately, I got several cced processes showing up. So although it didn't fix the issue, it did reveal yet another symptom. Regards, Rashid At 08:17 PM 3/18/2011, you wrote: >Sorry I am late to this thread, but I was not sure at first if my problem >and yours were related. > >I had a similar problem that turned out to be related to pam_abl. It seemed >that pam_abl was not purging it's blacklist history properly so as it tried >to do its thing cce was hanging. > >Your problem seems a little different but try the following anyway. It came >from Michael @ Solarspeed > >As root and from the console run this command: > >/etc/init.d/pam_abl status > >It should show a list of blocked hosts and users and also the date and time >of the events. Check this output for two things: > >a) You should see no error message that indicate a corruption of the PAM_ABL >database. > >b) You should see no events older than say a week. > >If you see events older than a week OR get an error message that indicates a >corruption of the PAM_ABL database. Like in the case that I had recently, >the corruption of the database no longer allowed removal of old records, so >the PAM_ABL lists got so long that the GUI literally choked on processing >and displaying them. > >To fix this issue run these two commands: > >rm /var/lib/abl/hosts.db >rm /var/lib/abl/users.db > >That will delete the PAM_ABL databases. They will get recreated >automatically, so no worries there. > >Then restart CCEd for good measure and check the PAM_ABL blocks again in the >GUI: >/etc/init.d/cced.init restart >(this part is important!, cced is not updated about the fix until after it >tries to sync with the pam_abl database, so go to the GUI , under security, >failed logins. It might take a moment to come up, that is cced syncing to >the now empty pam_abl) > >I had corrupted pam_abl databases on 3 out of 4 of my BX servers. This fixed >them right up. > >Hope it helps you. > >M Aronoff Out > > > >_______________________________________________ >Blueonyx mailing list >[email protected] >http://www.blueonyx.it/mailman/listinfo/blueonyx _______________________________________________ Blueonyx mailing list [email protected] http://www.blueonyx.it/mailman/listinfo/blueonyx
