I looked at my log archives going back two months, and this didn't happen one time. Looking at my logs, each restart appears to be associated with a zero byte log file, indicating a server abnormal termination (I didn't notice that yesterday). It started doing this at 11:02am yesterday. It did it about 30 times over the following two hours, and then the frequency slowed down until the last restart occurred at about 6:00 pm. Total "restarts" is about 100. And it hasn't done it since. At the peak it was every 30 seconds. After a couple hours it slowed down to a couple of times an hour before eventually stopping.
In the middle of all of this, without changing anything, I closed the port in my router, started server. Server sat there and didn't restart. Open port in router. Restart cycle resumes. Some script kiddie with a crash exploit gets my vote as most probably cause. First runner up is cosmic rays or sunspot cycles. Idk what else to think....after this stopped, peeps joined the server and I had non-stop traffic the rest of the evening. At 2am the last player quits, and the server has been idle since - no crashes, no restarts. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ronny Schedel" <[email protected]> To: "Half-Life dedicated Win32 server mailing list" <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, October 06, 2009 11:37 PM Subject: Re: [hlds] L4D Crash exploit? > > This is a normal behaviour. I have checked old log files from April 2009 > and > they exist too. The log files are 4 kb and shows the server starting and > immediatly quitting. > > >> Is there a L4D crash exploit going around? I'm watching my server, which >> normally runs for days without crashing, crash/restart every couple of >> minutes. The last few lines in the log file is: >> >> L 10/06/2009 - 15:09:49: Preventing spawning >> L 10/06/2009 - 15:09:49: server_message: "quit" >> L 10/06/2009 - 15:09:49: Log file closed >> >> This happens every couple of minutes. I don't see anything in the >> console, >> it just quits. It started doing this about 4.5 hours ago, and it's done >> it >> about 40 times since then. It leaves a log file of exactly 1272 bytes. >> _______________________________________________ >> To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, >> please visit: >> http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds >> > > > _______________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, > please visit: > http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds
