[sysmon-help] possible Bug numkilled?
Eddie Lania
e.lania at elton.nl
Fri Apr 25 23:45:59 EDT 2003
Forget about my last message about the maillog traces.
It was not related to this problem.
Sorry,
Eddie.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jared Mauch" <jared at sysmon.org>
To: "Eddie Lania" <e.lania at elton.nl>
Cc: <sysmon-help at puck.nether.net>
Sent: Friday, April 25, 2003 9:45 PM
Subject: Re: [sysmon-help] possible Bug numkilled?
> Hmm.
>
> This is quite strange.
>
> The ping test send a packet every about 2 seconds or so
> and after 7 pings (so, ~14 seconds) it declares a host 'down',
> adding in some other cpu burden time, this leaves a lot of time
> unaccounted for in why the test has been running for ~97 seconds.
>
> Same for the mail.home.nl check. Something caused the program
> to 'pause' (for whatever reason) creating this timegap.
>
> The system also logs when a check starts taking more than 45 seconds
> or so, and logs a message each second saying 'hey, something isn't right
here'
> the lack of these messages here indiciates to me that there was some other
> transient problem, are you using sendmail? Perhaps sendmail is taking
> too long of a time to 'accept' the message for delivery and adding
> that delay, or there is some dns resolver issues, but it's a little bit
> too hard to say right now.
>
> I'll add in a sendmail runtime check, that's my only guess
> considering that it just notified you of the 213.51.140.1 host
> being down, perhaps something associated with that notification
> used a lot of time.
>
> I need to review the code, but perhaps I should fork()
> then execuate sendmail or whatever else to not pause monitoring
> while you are warned/told about this.
>
> - Jared
>
> On Fri, Apr 25, 2003 at 09:37:30PM +0200, Eddie Lania wrote:
> > So more logging output.
> >
> > It's not only pop3;
> >
> > Apr 25 2003-18:51:49 : 213.51.128.65 (213.51.128.65) SMTP server at
@Home is
> > Host Down 00:00:03
> > Apr 25 2003-18:51:49 : smtp5.wanadoo.nl (194.134.35.176) POP3 server at
> > Wanadoo is Host Down 00:00:03
> > Apr 25 2003-18:52:01 : 194.134.35.177 (194.134.35.177) SMTP server at
> > Wanadoo is Host Down 00:00:03
> > Apr 25 2003-18:52:11 : 213.51.128.65 (213.51.128.65) POP3 server at
@Home is
> > Host Down 00:00:03
> > Apr 25 2003-18:52:28 : r1-fe3-0-sec.hnglo1.ov.home.nl (213.51.140.1)
gateway
> > Roden at @Home is Unpingable 00:00:04
> > Apr 25 2003-18:53:48 : Killing stale check
> > cc184157-a.roden1.dr.home.nl:ping:0 lasting 97.033485secs
> > Apr 25 2003-18:53:48 : Killing stale check 213.51.210.1:ping:0 lasting
> > 97.033501secs
> > Apr 25 2003-18:53:48 : Killing stale check
> > cc184157-a.roden1.dr.home.nl:ping:0 lasting 97.037064secs
> > Apr 25 2003-18:53:48 : Killing stale check 213.51.210.1:ping:0 lasting
> > 97.037079secs
> > Apr 25 2003-18:53:48 : cc184157-a.roden1.dr.home.nl (213.51.240.149)
> > cc184157-a is Unpingable 00:00:05
> > Apr 25 2003-18:55:03 : r6-atm3-3-0-154-sec.rdc1.ov.home.nl
(213.51.210.1)
> > gateway Leek at @Home is Unpingable 00:00:06
> > Apr 25 2003-18:55:03 : Killing stale check mail.home.nl:tcp:25 lasting
> > 75.219368secs
> > Apr 25 2003-18:55:03 : possible Bug numkilled = 1 -- normally should
never
> > exceed zero
> >
> > Eddie.
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Chad Kouse" <chad.kouse at toohome.com>
> > To: "Eddie Lania" <e.lania at elton.nl>; <sysmon-help at puck.nether.net>
> > Sent: Friday, April 25, 2003 4:26 PM
> > Subject: RE: [sysmon-help] possible Bug numkilled?
> >
> >
> > Jared,
> >
> > Better open that bug back up again :)
> >
> > http://puck.nether.net/bugzilla-2.17.3/show_bug.cgi?id=21
> >
> > --chad
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Eddie Lania [mailto:e.lania at elton.nl]
> > Sent: Friday, April 25, 2003 2:45 AM
> > To: sysmon-help at puck.nether.net
> > Subject: [sysmon-help] possible Bug numkilled?
> >
> >
> > Hello all,
> >
> > I have two systems running sysmon, one at home and one at work.
> > On both systems sysmond dies from time to time with the following error:
> >
> > Apr 25 2003-01:35:34 : Killing stale check mail.home.nl:pop3:0 lasting
> > 61.994049secs
> > Apr 25 2003-01:35:34 : possible Bug numkilled = 1 -- normally should
never
> > exceed zero
> >
> > It seems this only happens when pop3 services are unreacheable.
> > Both systems are running sysmon v0.91.18.
> >
> > Any help would be welcome.
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> > Eddie Lania.
> >
> >
> >
> > My sysmon.conf:
> >
> > root = "my.default.gateway-obj";
> > ;
> > ;;
> > #
> > # Comments can look like this
> > ; or this
> >
> > # create a file for web page users
> > #config statusfile html "/usr/local/htdocs/index.html";
> > config statusfile html "/var/www/html/sysmon/index.html";
> >
> > # Log devices that are up/down
> > config logging file "/var/log/sysmond.log";
> >
> > # Show systems that are up also
> > config showupalso;
> >
> > # Configure an authentication key -- Default is none
> > #config authkey "Debug";
> >
> > # Set the sender to be sysmon at localhost
> > config sender "sysmon";
> >
> > # Expire in-process dns cache this often
> > config dnsexpire 7200;
> >
> > # Do not queue more than this many objects to be checked at once
> > config maxqueued 50;
> >
> > # Not implemented yet
> > #config snmp-trap; # catch snmp-traps
> >
> >
############################################################################
> > ###
> >
> >
> > #
> > # Eerst de lokale gateway's bepalen.
> > #
> >
> > object my.default.gateway-obj {
> > ip "192.168.168.1";
> > type ping;
> > desc "Gateway elton-intra.net";
> > dep "router";
> > contact "root at localhost";
> > };
> >
> > object router {
> > ip "ns1.elton-intra.net";
> > type udp;
> > port 53;
> > desc "nameserver";
> > contact "root at localhost";
> > };
> >
> >
> > #
> > # En natuurlijk de gateway voor internet.
> > #
> >
> > object Gateway.athome.roden {
> > ip "213.51.140.1";
> > type ping;
> > desc "Gateway @Home RODEN";
> > dep "router";
> > contact "root at localhost";
> > };
> >
> >
> > #
> > # Hier de "local peers" die altijd on-line moeten zijn.
> > #
> >
> > object Ntserver1.elton-intra.net {
> > ip "ntserver1.elton-intra.net";
> > type tcp;
> > port 139;
> > desc "Ntserver1";
> > dep "router";
> > contact "root at localhost";
> > };
> >
> > object Elton-edi.elton-intra.net {
> > ip "elton-edi.elton-intra.net";
> > type tcp;
> > port 139;
> > desc "EDI computer";
> > dep "router";
> > contact "root at localhost";
> > };
> >
> > object Scosysv.elton-intra.net {
> > ip "scosysv.elton-intra.net";
> > type tcp;
> > port 139;
> > dep "router";
> > desc "SCO UNIX server";
> > contact "root at localhost";
> > };
> >
> >
> > #
> > # En de lokale "services" zoals POP3, SMTP en TELNET
> > #
> >
> > object Pop3.elton-intra.net {
> > ip "mail.elton-intra.net";
> > type pop3;
> > username "eddie";
> > password "xxxxxx";
> > desc "POP3 service at Ntserver1";
> > dep "router";
> > contact "root at localhost";
> > };
> >
> > object Smtp.elton-intra.net {
> > ip "mail.elton-intra.net";
> > type smtp;
> > desc "SMTP service at Ntserver1";
> > dep "router";
> > contact "root at localhost";
> > };
> >
> > object Pop3.elton-isps.elton-intra.net {
> > ip "elton-isps.elton-intra.net";
> > type pop3;
> > username "eddie";
> > password "xxxxxx";
> > desc "POP3 service at Elton-isps";
> > dep "router";
> > contact "root at localhost";
> > };
> >
> > object Smtp.elton-isps.elton-intra.net {
> > ip "elton-isps.elton-intra.net";
> > type smtp;
> > desc "SMTP service at Elton-isps";
> > dep "router";
> > contact "root at localhost";
> > };
> >
> > object Telnet.elton-intra.net {
> > ip "scosysv.elton-intra.net";
> > type tcp;
> > port 23;
> > dep "router";
> > desc "Telnet service at Scosysv";
> > contact "root at localhost";
> > };
> >
> >
> > #
> > # De externe POP3 en SMTP servers.
> > #
> >
> > object Pop3.euronet.nl {
> > ip "pop.euronet.nl";
> > type pop3;
> > username "elton";
> > password "xxxxxx";
> > desc "POP3 server at Euronet";
> > dep "Gateway.athome.roden";
> > contact "root at localhost";
> > };
> >
> > object Pop3.home.nl {
> > ip "mail.home.nl";
> > type pop3;
> > username "ellenelton";
> > password "xxxxxx";
> > desc "POP3 server at @Home";
> > dep "Gateway.athome.roden";
> > contact "root at localhost";
> > };
> >
> > object Smtp.euronet.nl {
> > ip "smtp.euronet.nl";
> > type smtp;
> > desc "SMTP server at Euronet";
> > dep "Gateway.athome.roden";
> > contact "root at localhost";
> > };
> >
> > object Smtp.home.nl {
> > ip "mail.home.nl";
> > type smtp;
> > desc "SMTP server at @Home";
> > dep "Gateway.athome.roden";
> > contact "root at localhost";
> > };
> >
> >
> > #
> > # Hier de server van mezelf thuis.
> > #
> >
> > object Gateway.athome.leek {
> > ip "213.51.210.1";
> > type ping;
> > desc "Gateway @Home LEEK";
> > dep "Gateway.athome.roden";
> > contact "e.lania at home.nl";
> > };
> >
> > object cc47962-a.leek1.gr.home.nl {
> > ip "cc47962-a.leek1.gr.home.nl";
> > type ping;
> > desc "cc47962-a";
> > dep "Gateway.athome.roden";
> > contact "e.lania at home.nl";
> > };
> >
> >
> > #
> > # Nog enkele voorbeelden.
> > #
> >
> > #object telnet-nether.net {
> > # ip "nether.net";
> > # type tcp;
> > # port 23;
> > # dep "nether.net";
> > # desc "telnetd-nether.net";
> > # contact "admin at example.com";
> > #};
> > #
> > #object smtp-nether.net {
> > # ip "nether.net";
> > # type smtp;
> > # dep "nether.net";
> > # desc "smtp-nether.net";
> > # contact "admin at example.com";
> > #};
> > #
> >
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