[sslh] sslh-1.7a - problem with zombies

[Matthias Buecher / Germany]

Did some tests today (OpenVPN 2.1.1, DropBear sshd v0.52), no zombies here.
Could it be that these "zombies" are caused by zombie connections of the
applications you use?

Maddes


On 02.07.2010 23:58, Matthias Buecher / Germany wrote:
> I'm running sslh 1.7a on my Linksys WRT350Nv2 (Marvell Orion CPU, ARMel)
> with OpenWrt Backfire and never recognized any zombies.
> Unfortunately after 1 month of running I upgraded my router today, so no
> connections yet, but will do some tests this week and keep an eye it.
> 
> Maddes
> http://www.maddes.net/
> 
> 
> On 02.07.2010 22:05, Bud Curry wrote:
>> My goal is to run sslh on my WRT54GL running Tomato firmware (1.28). I'm
>> a developer, but my Linux expertise is very limited. Despite that, I
>> have managed to cross-compile the source for MIPSEL and got it loaded
>> and running. The problem I'm having it is that, while it works, it seems
>> to accumulate a lot of zombie child processes, and so eventually stops
>> accepting new requests. If I kill the main sslh process, these child
>> processes die. I then can restart sslh and all is well again for awhile.
>> I suppose I could create a cron job to restart sslh every so often, but
>> there has to be a better way.
>>
>> Any thoughts on this?  Anyone else running this on a Linksys router with
>> third-party firmware?
>>
>> Thanks in advance. 
>>
>> Bud
>>