[sslh] Many processes

[Aaron Madlon-Kay]

Hello all. I'm running 1.10 on OS X 10.7.3 and I've never seen so many sslh processes running at once on my machine. As I'm running the default sslh-fork flavor, I note that each connection gets its own process. However as soon as the connection is closed, that particular process goes away as expected.

I guess it would help to know the following:

1. Where did you get sslh from? (It seems from the launch path that you got it from MacPorts.)

2. How are you launching it? (If you're using the launchctl script I suggested, there are some problems with it in version 1.10 that I'd like to know how you addressed.)

3. Can you try rebooting and confirming that you start off initially with two sslh processes? And that additional processes spawn and die correctly for each incoming connection?

Thanks,
Aaron


On 2012/02/02, at 22:18, Yves Rutschle wrote:

> On Wed, Feb 01, 2012 at 02:29:10PM +0100, Maurice Commandeur wrote:
>> Hi Yves,
> 
> Please keep the mailing list posted!
> 
>> Currently running version 1.10
> 
> Ok, I have no theory then.
> 
> Anyone on the mailing list runing MacOSX and 1.10? Aaron?
> 
>>>> server:~ admin$ ps -ef | grep sslh
> 
> Could you try the following:
> 
> - Start afresh, do a ps -ef (you should have two sslh
>  processes)
> - Do one connection with SSL, another ps -ef
> - Do one connection with SSH, another ps -ef
> 
> in order to see if zombies appear consistently. By the end
> you should only have one sslh per active connection + 2, so
> if you closed all connections there should only ever be 2
> processes.
> 
> Meanwhile I'll see if I can find a shell account for MacOSX,
> or re-test under FreeBSD to see if I can reproduce the
> problem.
> 
> Cheers,
> Y.
> 
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