Re: Hundreds of sshd processes spawned by Postgresql
Marc Shapiro put forth on 6/23/2010 9:58 PM:
> I am running a Lenny box, with postgressq-8.4.
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> I ran ps -e, just now, and there were over 350 sshd processes running under user postgres. I killed the postgresql-8.4 process, but the sshd processes were still there, so I killed them. I then started postgres again, followed by ssh. I immediately ran ps -e and the where over 200 sshd processes, again. Is this normal? There should not be anything running, that I know of, that should be accessing any databases.
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> I have again killed postgresql and sshd processes. I am hoping for an answer before I restart ssh, but that will keep me from connecting via ssh from my laptop.
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> Any help appreciated.
Did you happen to look at the foreign address endpoint of the ssh sessions?
That might begin to help solve the mystery.
netstat -atn|grep :22
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Stan
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