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viljoens at verishare....
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 Posted: Wed Jan 07, 2015 7:32 am Post subject: [asterisk-users] Asterisk executable suddenly about 40KB lar |
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Hi all
I have a strange issue with 1.8.11.0 on a production Asterisk machine at our
head office, and the same issue with a production machine at a branch
office.
Every now and then, on the head office machine, ODBC CEL and CDR logging
will stop working. On examination in the CLI, Asterisk behaves as if the
config files for ODBC in the /etc directory are just gone.
Repeated tests have then proved that the config files
(/etc/asterisk/res_odbc.conf, /etc/asterisk/res_pgsql.conf, etc.) ARE in
/etc/asterisk folder and are readable and have the correct contents, and are
NOT gone.
On the branch machine, where we do not use ODBC but FreeTDS to log CDRs to
an MSSQL DB, TDS stops working randomly as well, with the cdr_tds.so module
refusing to load with a message (I forget now the exact wording) that seems
to indicate that the Asterisk version is incompatible with the cdr_tds.so
ELF object file.
Checking further, I discovered that in both situations, the asterisk
executable in /usr/sbin grew by about 40KB compared to its size just after
being compiled...
The fix on both machines is to re-copy a backup of the asterisk executable
to /usr/sbin to overwrite the new "suddenly larger" asterisk executable, and
then restarting asterisk on both machines.
Everything then works correctly again until the next time the
/usr/sbin/asterisk executable again "grows" by +- 40kb - at Head Office
stopping ODBC from working, at the branch stopping TDS from working.
This doesn't happen with our other 14 branches all running 1.8.11.0 on
mostly identical hardware.
Anybody encountered this "growing executable" error before?
Thanks
Stefan
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tony at softins.co.uk
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| Posted: Wed Jan 07, 2015 7:56 am Post subject: [asterisk-users] Asterisk executable suddenly about 40KB lar |
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In article <001a01d02a75$cf314fc0$6d93ef40$@verishare.co.za>,
Stefan Viljoen <viljoens@verishare.co.za> wrote:
| Quote: | Hi all
I have a strange issue with 1.8.11.0 on a production Asterisk machine at our
head office, and the same issue with a production machine at a branch
office.
Every now and then, on the head office machine, ODBC CEL and CDR logging
will stop working. On examination in the CLI, Asterisk behaves as if the
config files for ODBC in the /etc directory are just gone.
Repeated tests have then proved that the config files
(/etc/asterisk/res_odbc.conf, /etc/asterisk/res_pgsql.conf, etc.) ARE in
/etc/asterisk folder and are readable and have the correct contents, and are
NOT gone.
On the branch machine, where we do not use ODBC but FreeTDS to log CDRs to
an MSSQL DB, TDS stops working randomly as well, with the cdr_tds.so module
refusing to load with a message (I forget now the exact wording) that seems
to indicate that the Asterisk version is incompatible with the cdr_tds.so
ELF object file.
Checking further, I discovered that in both situations, the asterisk
executable in /usr/sbin grew by about 40KB compared to its size just after
being compiled...
The fix on both machines is to re-copy a backup of the asterisk executable
to /usr/sbin to overwrite the new "suddenly larger" asterisk executable, and
then restarting asterisk on both machines.
Everything then works correctly again until the next time the
/usr/sbin/asterisk executable again "grows" by +- 40kb - at Head Office
stopping ODBC from working, at the branch stopping TDS from working.
This doesn't happen with our other 14 branches all running 1.8.11.0 on
mostly identical hardware.
Anybody encountered this "growing executable" error before?
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It could be something to do with pre-linking. See "man prelink". This
is usually run from /etc/cron.daily
You can disable pre-linking by following the instructions here:
http://www.builddesigncreate.com/index.cgi?mode=webpage_list&pageid=2011080413332724848
If that prevents the problem, the next step would be to determine why
pre-linking causes the problem, although I'm not sure how you do so.
Cheers
Tony
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asterisk_list at earth...
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| Posted: Wed Jan 07, 2015 8:02 am Post subject: [asterisk-users] Asterisk executable suddenly about 40KB lar |
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On Wednesday 07 Jan 2015, Stefan Viljoen wrote:
| Quote: | Hi all
I have a strange issue with 1.8.11.0 on a production Asterisk machine at
our head office, and the same issue with a production machine at a branch
office.
Every now and then, on the head office machine, ODBC CEL and CDR logging
will stop working. On examination in the CLI, Asterisk behaves as if the
config files for ODBC in the /etc directory are just gone.
Repeated tests have then proved that the config files
(/etc/asterisk/res_odbc.conf, /etc/asterisk/res_pgsql.conf, etc.) ARE in
/etc/asterisk folder and are readable and have the correct contents, and
are NOT gone.
Checking further, I discovered that in both situations, the asterisk
executable in /usr/sbin grew by about 40KB compared to its size just after
being compiled...
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This sounds suspiciously as though you have some kind of rootkit-like
infection. Which probably is trying to make calls at your expense, and
without even doing you the courtesy of recording the fact of them being made
in the usual database.
You are going to need to get your hands dirty, tracing system operations .....
You want to look for a write to /usr/sbin/asterisk .
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