No idea never seen of this before.
On Sun, 2006-02-05 at 18:10 +0100, Guillaume Castagnino wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Logrotate has a very strange behavior on my grsec box :
> after reading the config files, there is a big lockup, logrotate does not
> start rotating the logs, and use 100% CPU. Here is the verbose output :
>
> =====================8<=====================
> # logrotate /etc/logrotate.conf -v
> reading config file /etc/logrotate.conf
> including /etc/logrotate.d
> reading config file acpid
> reading config info for /var/log/acpid
> reading config file apache2
> reading config info for /var/log/apache2/*log
> reading config file fail2ban
> reading config info for /var/log/fail2ban.log
> reading config file samba
> reading config info for /var/log/samba/log
> reading config file syslog-ng
> reading config info
> for /var/log/syslog /var/log/auth.log /var/log/mail.err /var/log/cron.log
> /var/log/mail.log /var/log/messages /var/log/user.log /var/log/daemon.log
> /var/log/kern.log /var/log/imapd.log /var/log/grsec.log /var/log/iptables.log
> /var/log/rsync.log
> reading config info for /var/log/wtmp
> <HERE IS THE LOCKUP>
> =====================>8=====================
>
> The same logrotate config works well on my desktop (non hardened) box.
> Strace output of logrotate execution sounds quite strange to me. Seems
> logrotate loops for half an hour with this message :
>
> =====================8<=====================
> mremap(0x4ae6d000, 557056, 557056, MREMAP_MAYMOVE) = 0x4ae6d000
> stat64("/etc/localtime", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=1082, ...}) = 0
> stat64("/etc/localtime", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=1082, ...}) = 0
> mremap(0x4ae6d000, 557056, 557056, MREMAP_MAYMOVE) = 0x4ae6d000
> stat64("/etc/localtime", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=1082, ...}) = 0
> stat64("/etc/localtime", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=1082, ...}) = 0
> mremap(0x4ae6d000, 557056, 557056, MREMAP_MAYMOVE) = 0x4ae6d000
> stat64("/etc/localtime", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=1082, ...}) = 0
> stat64("/etc/localtime", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=1082, ...}) = 0
> mremap(0x4ae6d000, 557056, 557056, MREMAP_MAYMOVE) = 0x4ae6d000
> stat64("/etc/localtime", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=1082, ...}) = 0
> stat64("/etc/localtime", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=1082, ...}) = 0
> mremap(0x4ae6d000, 557056, 557056, MREMAP_MAYMOVE) = 0x4ae6d000
> stat64("/etc/localtime", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=1082, ...}) = 0
> stat64("/etc/localtime", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=1082, ...}) = 0
> mremap(0x4ae6d000, 557056, 557056, MREMAP_MAYMOVE) = 0x4ae6d000
> =====================>8=====================
>
> Do you have any idea of what could cause this strange behavior ?
>
> Some config infos :
> - using a vanilla 2.6.14.6 with grsec patch 2.1.8
> - rbac is disabled for those tests
> - logrotate is 3.7.1-r2
> - hardened profile hardened/x86/2.6 full ~x86
> - CFLAGS : -march=pentium4 -O2 -mtune=pentium4 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe
>
> Regards,
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Ned Ludd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Gentoo Linux
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