Unix domain socket leak in 6-STABLE

[Marc G. Fournier]

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- --On Thursday, June 14, 2007 14:03:27 -0300 Alexandre Biancalana 
<biancalana at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 6/14/07, Marc G. Fournier <freebsd at hub.org> wrote:
>
>> I don't know ... it was caused by an application, but nothing was freed up
>> after the application was stop'd ...
>
>
> In my case the sockets are closed only if I stop the samba processes. When I
> just changed the connection mode from Unix Socket to TCP on nss_ldap.conf,
> the connections remain opened. I think this could be a problem with nss_ldap
> (in the way of the connections are handled ?) because samba is accessing
> OpenLDAP directly via TCP, the access via Unix Sockets is only done by Samba
> throughnss_ldap.
>
> I trying to simulate this error on another machine. I will write some
> scripts/program that connect to OpenLDAP socket directly and via nss_ldap
> and post the results.
>
> Any more hints ?

Hrmm .. how about nss in general?  the one VPS that I killed off was using 
nss-mysql for passwd/group and shadow ... its definitely not something that is 
normally done here, and about the only thing I can think of that is 'unusual' 
about that specific VPS, in my case ...

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