On Monday, Nov 27th 2006 at 10:20 -0500, quoth Steven W. Orr:
=>On Saturday, Nov 25th 2006 at 10:29 -0500, quoth Steven W. Orr:
=>
=>=>On Friday, Nov 24th 2006 at 22:33 -0500, quoth Steven W. Orr:
=>=>
=>=>=>
=>=>=>Ok. I got a new one today and I'm leaving it around so we can figure this
=>=>=>thing out.
=>=>=>
=>=>=>Here's the cron tree:
=>=>=>
=>=>=> 3480 ? Ss 0:01 crond
=>=>=>16571 ? S 0:00 \_ crond
=>=>=>16572 ? Ss 0:00 \_ /usr/bin/perl -w /usr/bin/flexbackup
-set backup -incremental
=>=>=>16846 ? Z 0:00 | \_ [sh] <defunct>
=>=>=>16573 ? S 0:00 \_ /usr/sbin/sendmail -FCronDaemon -i
-odi -oem -oi -t
=>=>=>
=>=>=>And here's the gzip:
=>=>=>
=>=>=>16860 ? S 0:01 gzip -9
=>=>=>
=>=>=>and ps -ef shows
=>=>=>
=>=>=>root 16860 1 0 03:31 ? 00:00:01 gzip -9
=>=>=>root 16571 3480 0 03:31 ? 00:00:00 crond
=>=>=>root 16572 16571 0 03:31 ? 00:00:00 /usr/bin/perl -w
/usr/bin/flexbackup -set backup -incremental
=>=>=>smmsp 16573 16571 0 03:31 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/sendmail
-FCronDaemon -i -odi -oem -oi -t
=>=>=>root 16846 16572 0 03:31 ? 00:00:00 [sh] <defunct>
=>=>=>
=>=>=>which shows that gzip is now the child of init which means that his
parent
=>=>=>exited and orphaned him. And 16846 seems to not be getting cleanup up by
=>=>=>flexbackup.
=>=>=>
=>=>=>Anyone have an idea of what this all means?
=>=>
=>=>Next day and we got lucky. It happened again
=>=>
=>=>
=>=>root 3480 0.0 0.0 2668 468 ? Ss Aug27 0:01 crond
=>=>root 16571 0.0 0.0 3292 988 ? S Nov24 0:00 \_ crond
=>=>root 16572 0.0 0.5 8320 5960 ? Ss Nov24 0:00 | \_
/usr/bin/perl -w /usr/bin/flexbackup -set backup -incremental
=>=>root 16846 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Z Nov24 0:00 | | \_
[sh] <defunct>
=>=>smmsp 16573 0.0 0.2 7344 2744 ? S Nov24 0:00 | \_
/usr/sbin/sendmail -FCronDaemon -i -odi -oem -oi -t
=>=>root 21193 0.0 0.0 3292 988 ? S 03:31 0:00 \_ crond
=>=>root 21194 0.0 0.5 8320 5952 ? Ss 03:31 0:00 \_
/usr/bin/perl -w /usr/bin/flexbackup -set backup -differential
=>=>root 21377 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Z 03:31 0:00 | \_
[sh] <defunct>
=>=>smmsp 21195 0.0 0.2 7344 2728 ? S 03:31 0:00 \_
/usr/sbin/sendmail -FCronDaemon -i -odi -oem -oi -t
=>=>
=>=>and we now have two gzips owned by init.
=>=>
=>=>526 > ps -ef | grep gzip
=>=>root 16860 1 0 Nov24 ? 00:00:01 gzip -9
=>=>root 21419 1 0 03:31 ? 00:00:03 gzip -9
=>=>steveo 5813 9890 0 10:28 pts/3 00:00:00 grep gzip
=>=>527 >
=>
=>
=>Ok. I promise I won't post any more examples. I just had one more from
=>last night.
=>
=> 3480 ? Ss 0:01 crond
=>16571 ? S 0:00 \_ crond
=>16572 ? Ss 0:00 | \_ /usr/bin/perl -w /usr/bin/flexbackup -set
backup -incremental
=>16846 ? Z 0:00 | | \_ [sh] <defunct>
=>16573 ? S 0:00 | \_ /usr/sbin/sendmail -FCronDaemon -i -odi
-oem -oi -t
=>21193 ? S 0:00 \_ crond
=>21194 ? Ss 0:00 | \_ /usr/bin/perl -w /usr/bin/flexbackup -set
backup -differential
=>21377 ? Z 0:00 | | \_ [sh] <defunct>
=>21195 ? S 0:00 | \_ /usr/sbin/sendmail -FCronDaemon -i -odi
-oem -oi -t
=>17332 ? S 0:00 \_ crond
=>17333 ? Ss 0:00 \_ /usr/bin/perl -w /usr/bin/flexbackup -set
backup -incremental
=>17705 ? Z 0:00 | \_ [sh] <defunct>
=>17334 ? S 0:00 \_ /usr/sbin/sendmail -FCronDaemon -i -odi
-oem -oi -t
=>
=>524 > ps -ef | grep gzip
=>root 16860 1 0 Nov24 ? 00:00:01 gzip -9
=>root 21419 1 0 Nov25 ? 00:00:03 gzip -9
=>root 17719 1 0 03:32 ? 00:00:01 gzip -9
=>steveo 12378 3292 0 10:17 pts/5 00:00:00 grep gzip
=>525 >
=>
=>Also, I included my flexbackup.conf, if that helps. Thanks.
=>
=>$type = 'afio';
=>$set{'backup'} = "/e/web /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp /usr/local /etc /boot
=>/root /var/spool/mail /var/log";
=>$prune{'/e/web'} = "steveo/mpg";
=>$compress = 'gzip'; # one of false/gzip/bzip2/lzop/zip/compress/hardware
=>$compr_level = '9'; # compression level (1-9) (for gzip/bzip2/lzop/zip)
=>$buffer = 'buffer'; # one of false/buffer/mbuffer
=>$buffer_megs = '10'; # buffer memory size (in megabytes)
=>$buffer_fill_pct = '75'; # start writing when buffer this percent full
=>$buffer_pause_usec = '100'; # pause after write (tape devices only)
=>$device = '/d2/backup';
=>$blksize = '10';
=>$mt_blksize = "0";
=>$pad_blocks = 'true';
=>$remoteshell = 'ssh'; # command for remote shell (rsh/ssh/ssh2)
=>$remoteuser = ''; # if non-null, secondary username for remote shells
=>$label = 'true'; # somehow store identifying label in archive?
=>$verbose = 'true'; # echo each file?
=>$sparse = 'true'; # handle sparse files?
=>$indexes = 'true'; # false to turn off all table-of-contents support
=>$staticfiles = 'false';
=>$atime_preserve = 'false';
=>$traverse_fs = 'false';
=>$exclude_expr[0] = '.*/[Cc]ache/.*';
=>$exclude_expr[1] = '.*~$';
=>$erase_tape_set_level_zero = 'true';
=>$erase_rewind_only = 'false';
=>$logdir = '/var/log/flexbackup'; # directory for log files
=>$comp_log = 'bzip2'; # compress log?
false/gzip/bzip2/lzop/compress/zip
=>$staticlogs = 'false'; # static log filenames w/ no date stamp
=>$prefix = ''; # log files will start with this prefix
=>$tmpdir = '/tmp'; # used for temporary refdate files, etc
=>$stampdir = '/var/lib/flexbackup'; # directory for backup timestamps
=>$index = '/var/lib/flexbackup/index'; # DB filename for tape indexes
=>$keyfile = '00-index-key'; # filename for keyfile if archiving to dir
=>$sprefix = ''; # stamp files will start with this prefix
=>$afio_nocompress_types = 'mp3 MP3 Z z gz gif GIF zip ZIP lha jpeg jpg JPG
=>taz tgz deb rpm bz2 lzo png';
=>$afio_echo_block = 'false';
=>$afio_compress_threshold = '3';
=>$afio_compress_cache_size = '2';
=>$tar_echo_record_num = 'false';
=>$cpio_format = 'newc';
=>$dump_length = '0';
=>$dump_use_dumpdates = 'false';
=>$star_fifo = 'true';
=>$star_acl = 'true';
=>$star_format = 'exustar';
=>$star_echo_block_num = 'false';
=>$pax_format = 'ustar';
=>$zip_nocompress_types = 'mp3 MP3 Z z gz gif zip ZIP lha jpeg jpg JPG taz tgz
deb rpm bz2 lzo';
=>$pkgdelta_archive_list = 'rootonly';
=>$pkgdelta_archive_unowned = 'true';
=>$pkgdelta_archive_changed = 'true';
=>1;
Hi. Sorry to bother people. I have had this problem continue to happen. I
had problems getting it fully and properly described on the first couple
of shots, but now that it is I never got anyone to respond. There's an
article in this month's Linux Journal discussing a backup setup using
Duplicity. I'd rather not switch, so if anyone can advise on how to fix
this problem I'd appreciate it. I'm thinking a possible race condition on
proper child reaping. Can this be fixed?
TIA
--
Time flies like the wind. Fruit flies like a banana. Stranger things have .0.
happened but none stranger than this. Does your driver's license say Organ ..0
Donor?Black holes are where God divided by zero. Listen to me! We are all- 000
individuals! What if this weren't a hypothetical question?
steveo at syslang.net
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