Stéphane Graber a écrit :
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> Nicolas Lebrun wrote:
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>> Hi !
>>
>> Here is our problem...
>>
>> We've got a ltsp ubuntu jaunty system in our high school ...
>>
>> - The server is a DELL PowerEdge 840 with an unbuntu 9.04
>> - We got 67 thin clients HP 5730 ( yes, it's a lot )
>> - As our thin clients are quite powerfull, we use localapps ... Here's 
>> our lts.conf
>>                     [default]
>>                     SEARCH_DOMAIN = 
>> lyc-jacques-monod-st-jean-de-braye.ac-orleans-tours.fr
>>                     DNS_SERVER = 10.145.15.130
>>                     RCFILE_01=/etc/init.d/chmod-resolv.sh
>>                     LOCAL_APPS=True
>>                     LOCAL_APPS_MENU = True
>>                     LOCAL_APPS_MENU_ITEMS = 
>> firefox,mplayer,vlc,gimp,openoffice.org-calc,openoffice.org-draw,openoffice.org-impress,openoffice.org-math,openoffice.org-writer
>>                     LOCALDEV = True
>>                     LDM_DIRECTX = True
>>                     SCREEN_07 = ldm
>> - We have a LDAP connection for our users
>> - We access our documents on another samba server with pam_mount
>>
>> Two days ago, nobody could anymore connect to a thin client ... We 
>> discovered that the /home partition ( /dev/sda4 ) was full : 100%
>>
>> In some user's home, we had those directories :
>>
>>             drwxr-xr-x  2 andre.montay professeurs    4096 2009-09-03 
>> 08:38 bin
>>             drwxr-xr-x  3 andre.montay professeurs    4096 2009-09-03 
>> 08:38 boot
>>             drwxrwxrwx  9 andre.montay professeurs    4096 2009-09-03 
>> 08:38 cow
>>             drwxr-xr-x  8 andre.montay professeurs    4096 2009-09-03 
>> 11:38 dev
>>
>> The dev is especially big ...
>>
>> Since two days, we are checking if dev is appearing in user's home, and 
>> we find that the process filling home was  ' scp -r -d -t . '
>>
>> Here is what we have to do every hour to avoid server saturation ...
>>
>> r...@ltsp-jaunty:~# df /dev/sda4
>> Sys. de fich.           1K-blocs       Occupé Disponible Capacité Monté sur
>> /dev/sda4            187026804  35989856 141536512  21% /home
>> r...@ltsp-jaunty:~# ps aux | grep scp | grep -v scp-client | grep -v grep
>> 13451     6344  5.4  0.0   4960  1308 ?        D<s  17:32   0:16 scp -r 
>> -d -t .
>> 13483    30301  0.4  0.0   4964  1368 ?        S<s  17:12   0:06 scp -r 
>> -d -t .
>> r...@ltsp-jaunty:~# kill 6344
>> r...@ltsp-jaunty:~# ps aux | grep scp | grep -v scp-client | grep -v grep
>> 13483    30301  0.4  0.0   4964  1368 ?        S<s  17:12   0:06 scp -r 
>> -d -t .
>> r...@ltsp-jaunty:~# kill 30301
>> r...@ltsp-jaunty:~# ps aux | grep scp | grep -v scp-client | grep -v grep
>> r...@ltsp-jaunty:~# ls /home/*/*/dev
>> /home/c/caroline.nio/dev:
>> dri  fd  net  pts  shm  snd  sndstat
>> /home/s/sylvain.andre/dev:
>> dri  fd  net  pts  shm  snd  sndstat
>> r...@ltsp-jaunty:~# rm -fr /home/*/*/dev
>> r...@ltsp-jaunty:~# ls /home/*/*/dev
>> ls: ne peut accéder /home/*/*/dev: Aucun fichier ou dossier de ce type
>> r...@ltsp-jaunty:~# df /dev/sda4
>> Sys. de fich.           1K-blocs       Occupé Disponible Capacité Monté sur
>> /dev/sda4            187026804  31773428 145752940  18% /home
>>
>> Sorry for this (too) long message ...
>>
>> We don't now when, why, this process "scp -r -d -t" exists...
>>
>> Any advice, any idea will be welcome...
>>
>> Nicolas Lebrun
>>     
>
> This happen when a username starts with a space, in this case it tries
> to copy the whole LTSP chroot into the user home directory.
> I fixed that bug a few weeks ago, using my PPA will solve the issue:
> http://launchpad.net/~stgraber/+archive
>
> A SRU/backport could be done if someone can invest the time to do it.
>   
As we are in production, is it safe to migrate from 5.1.65-0ubuntu2 to 
your 5.1.85 ?

Many thanks Stephane


Nicolas



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