As far as I have seen and understand it, it happens on our start map. The next log file is with players and a different map. So, I would say, this happens when a lobby catched the server for gaming and it restarts the server with the new settings from the lobby.
>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 > _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds
