[Labs-l] The bastion host is only meant as an ssh bastion

[Ryan Lane]

screen sessions and such are OK, if they are being used to keep your
sessions to other hosts open. They aren't OK if they are being used to run
long-running processes. I'm assuming you're doing the former and not the
latter ;).

- Ryan


On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 10:50 AM, Petr Bena <benapetr at gmail.com> wrote:

> ok, please don't kill my screens, I <3 them :3
>
>
> On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 7:37 PM, Ryan Lane <rlane at wikimedia.org> wrote:
>
>> We've recently had a problem where a cron running on the bastion host was
>> consuming all memory and killing ssh sessions. The bastion host is not
>> meant to be used for anything other than an ssh bastion. That means the
>> only thing you should be running on that host is ssh.
>>
>> We're disabling cron and at on bastion hosts. We'll also occasionally
>> kill any process running that shouldn't be running on them. We've done that
>> today.
>>
>> If you're looking for a place to run a cron, irc bot, etc, then we can
>> find a project that's appropriate, or create a project for you.
>>
>> - Ryan
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