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"check_reload_status: syncing firewall" every 5 minutes in log

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    jimp Rebel Alliance Developer Netgate
    last edited by Jun 3, 2011, 11:58 AM

    Check the output of these two commands:

    $ ps uxawww | grep minicron
    $ cat /etc/crontab
    

    See what entries you have that might be executing every 5 minutes. (Though it could easily not be a cron job…)

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      Pontiac_CZ
      last edited by Jun 3, 2011, 12:06 PM

      The first one:

      
      $ ps uxawww | grep minicron
      root   27262  0.0  0.2  3316  1036  ??  Is   19May11   0:00.97 /usr/local/bin/minicron 240 /var/run/ping_hosts.pid /usr/local/bin/ping_hosts.sh
      root   27584  0.0  0.2  3316  1036  ??  Is   19May11   0:00.07 /usr/local/bin/minicron 3600 /var/run/expire_accounts.pid /etc/rc.expireaccounts
      root   27746  0.0  0.2  3316  1036  ??  Is   19May11   0:00.00 /usr/local/bin/minicron 86400 /var/run/update_alias_url_data.pid /etc/rc.update_alias_url_data
      root   37975  0.0  0.3  3656  1476  ??  S     2:04PM   0:00.00 sh -c ps uxawww | grep minicron
      root   38435  0.0  0.3  3524  1268  ??  S     2:04PM   0:00.00 grep minicron
      root   58830  0.0  0.2  3316  1040  ??  Is   19May11   0:04.06 /usr/local/bin/minicron 60 /var/run/cp_prunedb.pid /etc/rc.prunecaptiveportal
      root   59217  0.0  0.2  3316  1040  ??  Is   19May11   0:00.82 /usr/local/bin/minicron 300 /var/run/vouchercron.pid /etc/rc.savevoucher
      
      

      and the other:

      
      $ cat /etc/crontab
      SHELL=/bin/sh
      PATH=/etc:/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin
      HOME=/var/log
      #minute hour    mday    month   wday    who      command
      #
      #
      # pfSense specific crontab entries
      # Created: May 19, 2011, 7:50 am
      #
      
      0	*	*	*	*	root	/usr/bin/nice -n20 newsyslog
      1,31	0-5	*	*	*	root	/usr/bin/nice -n20 adjkerntz -a
      1	3	1	*	*	root	/usr/bin/nice -n20 /etc/rc.update_bogons.sh
      */60	*	*	*	*	root	/usr/bin/nice -n20 /usr/local/sbin/expiretable -v -t 3600 sshlockout
      1	1	*	*	*	root	/usr/bin/nice -n20 /etc/rc.dyndns.update
      */60	*	*	*	*	root	/usr/bin/nice -n20 /usr/local/sbin/expiretable -v -t 3600 virusprot
      30	12	*	*	*	root	/usr/bin/nice -n20 /etc/rc.update_urltables
      #
      # If possible do not add items to this file manually.
      # If you do so, this file must be terminated with a blank line (e.g. new line)
      #
      
      
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        jimp Rebel Alliance Developer Netgate
        last edited by Jun 3, 2011, 12:16 PM

        If you run /etc/rc.savevoucher by hand, does it make that message appear in the logs? That appears to be the only thing running every five minutes.

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          Pontiac_CZ
          last edited by Jun 3, 2011, 12:54 PM

          Ok, I sent the "/etc/rc.savevoucher" command to the pfSense box through "Execute Shell Command" field - but since then the system's been unresponsive (five minutes). Are you sure that was a good idea?  :)
          I am awaiting a desperate call from my employer any minute…

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            wk
            last edited by Jun 3, 2011, 1:00 PM

            I'm using vouchers too.

            I executed the command via ssh and it worked as jimp said.
            The message appeares in the log.

            cu
            Walter

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              wallabybob
              last edited by Jun 3, 2011, 1:10 PM

              I'm running captive portal and vouchers and I see those messages in the system log:

              clog /var/log/system.log | grep syncing | more

              May 28 18:38:38 pfsense2 check_reload_status: syncing firewall
              May 28 18:43:42 pfsense2 check_reload_status: syncing firewall
              May 28 18:48:45 pfsense2 check_reload_status: syncing firewall
              May 28 18:53:48 pfsense2 check_reload_status: syncing firewall
              May 28 18:58:51 pfsense2 check_reload_status: syncing firewall
              May 28 19:03:55 pfsense2 check_reload_status: syncing firewall
              May 28 19:08:59 pfsense2 check_reload_status: syncing firewall
              May 28 19:14:02 pfsense2 check_reload_status: syncing firewall
              May 28 19:19:06 pfsense2 check_reload_status: syncing firewall
              May 28 19:24:09 pfsense2 check_reload_status: syncing firewall
              May 28 19:29:13 pfsense2 check_reload_status: syncing firewall
              May 28 19:34:15 pfsense2 check_reload_status: syncing firewall
              May 28 19:39:19 pfsense2 check_reload_status: syncing firewall
              May 28 19:44:22 pfsense2 check_reload_status: syncing firewall
              May 28 19:49:25 pfsense2 check_reload_status: syncing firewall
              May 28 19:54:28 pfsense2 check_reload_status: syncing firewall
              May 28 19:59:32 pfsense2 check_reload_status: syncing firewall
              May 28 20:04:35 pfsense2 check_reload_status: syncing firewall
              May 28 20:09:38 pfsense2 check_reload_status: syncing firewall
              May 28 20:14:42 pfsense2 check_reload_status: syncing firewall
              May 28 20:19:46 pfsense2 check_reload_status: syncing firewall
              May 28 20:24:49 pfsense2 check_reload_status: syncing firewall
              May 28 20:29:52 pfsense2 check_reload_status: syncing firewall
              May 28 20:34:55 pfsense2 check_reload_status: syncing firewall
              May 28 20:39:58 pfsense2 check_reload_status: syncing firewall
              May 28 20:45:01 pfsense2 check_reload_status: syncing firewall
              May 28 20:50:04 pfsense2 check_reload_status: syncing firewall
              May 28 20:55:08 pfsense2 check_reload_status: syncing firewall
              May 28 21:00:11 pfsense2 check_reload_status: syncing firewall
              . . .

              On my other pfSense system where I'm not running captive portal:

              clog /var/log/system.log | grep syncing | more

              uname -a

              FreeBSD pfsense.example.org 8.1-RELEASE-p3 FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE-p3 #1: Sat May 21 21:30:20 EDT 2011     sullrich@FreeBSD_8.0_pfSense_2.0-snaps.pfsense.org:/usr/obj.pfSense/usr/pfSensesrc/src/sys/pfSense.8  i386

              uptime

              11:09PM  up 8 days, 14:54, 2 users, load averages: 0.15, 0.10, 0.07

              I'm running the same pfSense build on both systems.

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                jimp Rebel Alliance Developer Netgate
                last edited by Jun 3, 2011, 1:11 PM

                So mystery solved. It's the voucher saving process every five minutes causing the log message.

                It's also writing out the config every five minutes in that case, too, so I imagine that your backup history under Diagnostics > Backup/Restore is quite useless.

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                  wk
                  last edited by Jun 3, 2011, 1:38 PM

                  Jimp,

                  you are right. The Config History also tells every 5 minutes: (system): made unknown change

                  Thanks for helping.

                  cu
                  Walter

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                    Pontiac_CZ
                    last edited by Jun 3, 2011, 1:48 PM

                    Well, does that mean something for devs? Do you consider that bug? May we look forward to this to be fixed in the post-RC version?  :)

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                      jimp Rebel Alliance Developer Netgate
                      last edited by Jun 3, 2011, 1:55 PM

                      If you enable the voucher save feature, it will always happen. You can change how often this happens in the voucher config options.

                      Without saving the vouchers periodically, a sudden reboot would lose voucher usage data.

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                        wk
                        last edited by Jun 3, 2011, 2:01 PM

                        jimp,

                        the text in the gui tells: 'No save is done if no new vouchers have been activated.'

                        There are no new vouchers or active vouchers.

                        cu
                        Walter

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                          jimp Rebel Alliance Developer Netgate
                          last edited by Jun 3, 2011, 2:07 PM

                          I don't see any checks to prevent that write in the backend code. The function called writes the db out whenever it's called. Perhaps that was intended to be added later.

                          https://github.com/bsdperimeter/pfsense/blob/master/etc/inc/voucher.inc#L622

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                            Pontiac_CZ
                            last edited by Jun 7, 2011, 9:32 AM

                            Maybe. But right now we consider this a little bug, right? So I created a new issue in Redmine. Thank you guys for your cooperation.  :)

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                              wk
                              last edited by Jun 13, 2011, 6:33 AM

                              I can confirm, that since I'm using built Sat Jun 11 the bug is corrected and there are no more log entries and the history is no longer flooded.
                              There is also no more possibility to adjust the time of storing to database. I assume, it's still done all 5 minutes, but now silencely.

                              cu
                              Walter

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