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Author: info at smallinnovations dot nl
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To: dng
Subject: Re: [DNG] ..we need to keep an eye out for such systemd tricks causing DOS, was: [FYI] Docker upgrade fails to restart daemon
On 09-11-18 17:29, Arnt Karlsen wrote:
> On Fri, 09 Nov 2018 22:13:16 +0900, Olaf wrote in message
> <871s7uxukz.fsf@???>:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I've been using Docker's docker-ce package for Debian (stretch) on
>> Devuan (ascii) just fine for quite a while. However, last night's
>> automated upgrade on two of my Devuan servers left them without a
>> running dockerd :-(
>>
>> A quick `invoke-rc.d docker start` got the daemon back up but I still
>> had to restart up some of the containers manually :-(
>>
>> The same upgrade went without any problems on a Debian server. Looks
>> like the Docker folks only cater to systemd setups :-(((
>
> ..on installing atop, I found things going at a glacial pace, a
> wee part of global climate change, and this fine new cron job:
> root@box:~# cat /etc/cron.d/atop
> PATH=/bin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/usr/sbin
>
> # daily restart of atop at midnight
> 0 0 * * * root if [ -d "/run/systemd/system" ]; then systemctl restart
> atop; else /usr/share/atop/atop.daily \& ; fi
>
> ..commenting it out, "brought back life."
>
> ..we need to keep an eye out for such tricks causing such DOS.
> root@box:~# dpkg -l atop |grep atop |fmt -tu
> ii atop 2.2.6-4 amd64 Monitor for system resources and process activity
>

Sounds like a bug, file a bugreport. If intentionally it will get a
'Will not fix' and you know.

Grtz

Nick