Proftpd Runaway processes !

pguy

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Searched the forums, but to no avail.

Today was logged in one of my servers and I see proftpd spawning many processes. I ran pstree and found that there were around 160+ processes ! Luckily I was logged in and shut down proftpd and then later upgraded it to the latest version. But it started again.. and had to shut proftpd down for a while

On checking it after a couple of minutes, it seemed normal. Has anyone had this issue before ?

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FWC

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Check /var/log/messages. I suspect you will find an IP trying to connect to every site on your server. Block their IP with your firewall to stop them.

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