user avahi

Posted by sherwood, 04-22-2009, 11:59 AM
Hi, I seem to be getting emails from LFD about the account avahi using Excessive resource this is what i get from the email Account: avahi Resource: Process Time Exceeded: 19847 > 1800 (seconds) Executable: /usr/sbin/avahi-daemon Command Line: avahi-daemon: chroot helper PID: 4305 Killed: No The thing that doesn't make sense if that there is no account for avahi. Am i reading this wrong and is something bad going on in the server? Appreciate any help.

Posted by sherwood, 04-22-2009, 12:29 PM
Wish i never posted this now straight away. I found out it wasn't an actual account i host it is a process of some sort that has now been disabled as from what i read it can be a security threat.

Posted by cent52, 04-23-2009, 04:56 AM
Avahi is a system which facilitates service discovery on a local network. If you don't use it, disable it

Posted by david510, 04-23-2009, 05:57 AM
It is always good to find the source of the process. Which use is running and why? Sometimes this may be due to a security hole.

Posted by InstaCarma_Support, 04-23-2009, 08:36 AM
Non-cPanel user checking is defined by the variable 'PT_ALL_USERS' in the /etc/csf/csf.conf file You can disable that option if you do not want LFD to check them.

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