Package: ohai Version: 6.14.0-2 Severity: important Dear Maintainer, I just installed ohai on a debian-testing system and ran it, and noticed that in the "listeners" section it produces junk output for the names of the processes listening on all the ports. This is what it produces: ---- "listeners": { "tcp": { "1922": { "address": "*", "pid": 0, "name": "gitit" }, "5222": { "address": "*", "pid": 0, "name": "gitit" }, "6502": { "address": "127.0.0.1", "pid": 0, "name": "{2})*)*(?:/(?:[\\-_.!~*'()a-zA-Z\\d:@&=+$,]|%[a-fA-F\\d]{2})*(?:;(?:[\\-_.!~*'()a-zA-Z\\d:@&=+$,]|%[a-fA-F\\d]{2})*)*)*\\z" }, "3142": { "address": "*", "pid": 0, "name": "gitit" }, "6600": { "address": "::1", "pid": 0, "name": "gitit" }, "139": { "address": "*", "pid": 0, "name": "gitit" }, "783": { "address": "127.0.0.1", "pid": 0, "name": "{2})*)*(?:/(?:[\\-_.!~*'()a-zA-Z\\d:@&=+$,]|%[a-fA-F\\d]{2})*(?:;(?:[\\-_.!~*'()a-zA-Z\\d:@&=+$,]|%[a-fA-F\\d]{2})*)*)*\\z" }, "80": { "address": "*", "pid": 0, "name": "gitit" }, "8080": { "address": "*", "pid": 0, "name": "{2})*)*(?:/(?:[\\-_.!~*'()a-zA-Z\\d:@&=+$,]|%[a-fA-F\\d]{2})*(?:;(?:[\\-_.!~*'()a-zA-Z\\d:@&=+$,]|%[a-fA-F\\d]{2})*)*)*\\z" }, "5269": { "address": "*", "pid": 0, "name": "gitit" }, "22": { "address": "*", "pid": 0, "name": "gitit" }, "8888": { "address": "*", "pid": 15676, "name": "gitit" }, "25": { "address": "*", "pid": 0, "name": "gitit" }, "443": { "address": "*", "pid": 0, "name": "gitit" }, "445": { "address": "*", "pid": 0, "name": "gitit" }, "64738": { "address": "*", "pid": 0, "name": "gitit" }, "4949": { "address": "*", "pid": 0, "name": "gitit" } } } ----
Here is the output of "sudo iptables -lntp" which shows the real names of the running processes: ---- Active Internet connections (only servers) Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address Foreign Address State PID/Program name tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:1922 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 4001/sshd tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:5222 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 28163/lua5.1 tcp 0 0 127.0.0.1:6502 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 4045/murmurd tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:3142 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 3128/apt-cacher-ng tcp 0 0 127.0.0.1:6600 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 3753/mpd tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:139 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 18724/smbd tcp 0 0 127.0.0.1:783 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 4108/spamd.pid tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:80 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 22206/lighttpd tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:8080 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 3127/icecast2 tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:5269 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 28163/lua5.1 tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:22 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 4001/sshd tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:8888 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 15676/gitit tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:25 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 4213/master tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:443 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 22206/lighttpd tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:445 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 18724/smbd tcp6 0 0 :::64738 :::* LISTEN 4045/murmurd tcp6 0 0 :::1922 :::* LISTEN 4001/sshd tcp6 0 0 :::5222 :::* LISTEN 28163/lua5.1 tcp6 0 0 :::3142 :::* LISTEN 3128/apt-cacher-ng tcp6 0 0 ::1:6600 :::* LISTEN 3753/mpd tcp6 0 0 :::139 :::* LISTEN 18724/smbd tcp6 0 0 :::80 :::* LISTEN 22206/lighttpd tcp6 0 0 :::5269 :::* LISTEN 28163/lua5.1 tcp6 0 0 :::4949 :::* LISTEN 3179/perl tcp6 0 0 :::22 :::* LISTEN 4001/sshd tcp6 0 0 :::25 :::* LISTEN 4213/master tcp6 0 0 :::443 :::* LISTEN 22206/lighttpd tcp6 0 0 :::445 :::* LISTEN 18724/smbd ---- Shutting down the 'gitit' service results in it giving the "{2})*)*(?:/(?:[\\-_.!~*'()a-zA-Z\\d:@&=+$,]|%[a-fA-F\\d]{2})*(?:;(?:[\\-_.!~*'()a-zA-Z\\d:@&=+$,]|%[a-fA-F\\d]{2})*)*)*\\z" regexp for every service name. Upon reflection, this is because the user running ohai is not privilieged enough to get the processes of listening servers, and running ohai as the root user gives all the right process names for the various listeners. "gitit" was running as the same user as ohai, so it could get that process name. That does not explain why it listed "gitit" as the process name for a pile of different listening ports which had nothing to do with it though. Surely when ohai gets no process name for a listener it should degrade in a more graceful way than spewing a regexp. And it CERTAINLY should not give a random process name in place of one it cannot determine. Thank you, Simon Heath -- System Information: Debian Release: jessie/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 3.9-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages ohai depends on: ii ruby-ipaddress 0.8.0-1 ii ruby-mixlib-cli 1.2.2-2 ii ruby-mixlib-config 1.1.2-3 ii ruby-mixlib-log 1.4.1-1 ii ruby-sigar 0.7.2-1 ii ruby-systemu 2.5.1-1 ii ruby-yajl 1.1.0-2 ii ruby1.8 [ruby-interpreter] 1.8.7.358-7 ii ruby1.9.1 [ruby-interpreter] 1.9.3.194-8.1+b1 ohai recommends no packages. ohai suggests no packages. -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org