Cron issue

BeerCan

Don't know what I did but the cron job is getting hung up

I rebooted no luck
killed cron job and ran force update no luck
I reinstalled pfblocker and no luck

It just stays like this for hours

BBcan177

That's odd. Either try a reboot or kill any pfb pids

ps auxww | grep pfb

kill -9

BBcan177

Actually I have seen this issue before.

There is a file I think:

/var/run/booting

Or something like that. This file is stopping the cron run from executing. The next release will show this in the log.

So just delete that file.

BeerCan

@BBcan177:

Actually I have seen this issue before.

There is a file I think:

/var/run/booting

Or something like that. This file is stopping the cron run from executing. The next release will show this in the log.

So just delete that file.

That file is not there

Just rebooted again same issue. Weird, the system was fine yesterday and I have made zero changes in the last 5 days

BBcan177

Try to delete these Alexa DB files as it might have gotten corrupt:

rm /var/db/pfblockerng/top*
rm /var/db/pfblockerng/pfbalexawhitelist.txt

BeerCan

@BBcan177:

Try to delete these Alexa DB files as it might have gotten corrupt:

rm /var/db/pfblockerng/top*
rm /var/db/pfblockerng/pfbalexawhitelist.txt

Did that and it did re download top1m.csv and downloaded/recreated the whitelist

Now it seems stuck here

UPDATE PROCESS START [ 12/19/17 21:25:55 ]

===[  DNSBL Process  ]================================================

Alexa Database downloading ( approx 21M ) ... Please wait ...

BeerCan

Found the issue.

I don't know how it happened (I must have did it somehow) But in the alexa whitelist setting settings, none of the TLD Inclusions were selected. I re selected the defaults, and now everything seems to be working.

Thanks for pointing me in the right direction BBcan177