Comments on: Akismet Update and Server Problems

By: Rudd-O

Rudd-O — Wed, 01 Feb 2006 22:07:17 +0000

Indeed, I got the same attack at my weblog last week. I had to scramble and tone a lot of system services down, since the attacker hit my httpd, and it was configured with a maxclients setting too high, causing a load of over 266.

By: calvin

calvin — Wed, 25 Jan 2006 19:15:30 +0000

wene i go on the web site it seyes to update my server so im updateing it

By: calvin

calvin — Wed, 25 Jan 2006 19:14:35 +0000

it sayes to update your server

By: mike

mike — Mon, 23 Jan 2006 01:24:21 +0000

Hi Maddy,
I use Gallery, from http://gallery.menalto.com/
It’s a good package and pretty easy to set up once you have read the instructions.

Mike

By: Madeleine

Madeleine — Mon, 23 Jan 2006 00:21:19 +0000

hey. i was wondering what the deal with your photo gallery is. i’d really like one of my own and i love the format of yours. i just don’t know where to get started.

help me?

By: mike

mike — Fri, 20 Jan 2006 12:13:50 +0000

Roy,
It is the ‘killall’ command that I regard as not clean. For instance, I sometime run more than one web server on my machine. I wouldn’t want to kill all of them and only re-start one.

The restart option for the apache start-up script will first stop the process it started before starting another.

Thus my cron script might look like
if [ `ps -ef | grep httpd | wc -l` -gt "25" ] then /etc/init.d restart fi
(I haven’t tried this, so the syntax might be wrong)

Mike

By: Roy Schestowitz

Roy Schestowitz — Fri, 20 Jan 2006 11:55:33 +0000

I assume that restarting httpd will send a signal to one or all of the existing daemons. Why not add a conditional statement (e.g. ps –ef | grep httpd | wc –l > 2). Nothing to lose here… if the state is morbid, killall –HUP httpd; /etc/init.d/httpd restart; (if that’s the path in your distribution)

By: mike

mike — Fri, 20 Jan 2006 09:44:35 +0000

Hi Roy,
That’s a good idea but it would be much ‘cleaner’ to use the proper start up script to do something like that. In my case
/etc/init.d/httpd restart

But I’d still rather do that only having detected something wrong like too many connections

Mike

By: Roy Schestowitz

Roy Schestowitz — Fri, 20 Jan 2006 09:22:20 +0000

Mike, consider running a cron job such as

killall –HUP httpd
httpd

This will periodically disable your Web daemons for a few milliseconds and restart a single session. Choose frequency in accordance with server strain.

By: mike

mike — Thu, 19 Jan 2006 07:02:30 +0000

Hi Mike,
You need to use the latest version of the them which corrects this problem. Get it from http://zed1.com/journalized/themes/journalized-winter/

Mike