[pptp-server] Zombies killing syslogd

Mike Wronski mike at coredump.csocsg.net
Tue Jun 13 11:11:30 CDT 2000


I am getting zombie pptpd processes that show up in ps
as
pptpd [10.10.10.1]
pptpd [10.10.10.1]

Same ip in the brackets.  They seem to come from sessions that complete but
the process never goes away

Those zombies are streaming the following to my syslogd:

Jun 13 11:01:59 v pptpd[2644]: CTRL: EOF or bad error reading ctrl packet
length.
Jun 13 11:01:59 v pptpd[2644]: CTRL: couldn't read packet header (exit)
Jun 13 11:01:59 v pptpd[2644]: CTRL: Unexpected control message 0 in
disconnect sequence
Jun 13 11:01:59 v pptpd[2644]: CTRL: EOF or bad error reading ctrl packet
length.
Jun 13 11:01:59 v pptpd[2644]: CTRL: couldn't read packet header (exit)
Jun 13 11:01:59 v pptpd[2644]: CTRL: Unexpected control message 0 in
disconnect sequence


This puts a real hurt on the box. The only fix is to kill off the zombies
and restart PPTPD and syslogd..

Anyone seen this?







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