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CSF update causes problems

tmurdock
Hello, Cpanel automatically updated my CSF to v8.20 and now lfd constantly starts and stops itself. I can stop CSF but when I restart LFD continues to go back into a restart cycle. It is filling up lfd.log and I can't figure out what is causing it to continuously restart. Any help would be appreciated.

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  • cPanelMichael
    Hello :) cPanel will not automatically update your CSF plugin, however CSF does have an automatic update feature that you may have enabled: ConfigServer Security & Firewall You can search for AUTO_UPDATES on this page to see an example of the option. As far as the restart issue, keep in mind LFD/CSF is a third-party application. Are you restarting it via the "csf --lfd restart" command? What version of cPanel and what OS is installed on this system? Thank you.
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  • tmurdock
    Hi Michael, Thanks for the reply. I'm running centOS 6.7 and cPanel 54.0.21. It looks like CSF auto updated itself. I have used "csf --lfd restart" and "stop" but the daemon keeps requesting restarts indefinitely. The only command that stops it entirely is "csf -x" which completely disables CSF and LFD. I've force upgraded CSF again to see if that fixed it to no avail. A sample of my lfd.log is filled with lines like this:
    Apr 12 13:54:50 utility lfd[22769]: cPanel upgrade detected, restarting lfd Apr 12 13:54:50 utility lfd[22765]: Country Code Lookups... Apr 12 13:54:50 utility lfd[22765]: System Integrity Tracking... Apr 12 13:54:50 utility lfd[22765]: Exploit Tracking... Apr 12 13:54:50 utility lfd[22765]: Directory Watching... Apr 12 13:54:50 utility lfd[22765]: Temp to Perm Block Tracking... Apr 12 13:54:50 utility lfd[22765]: Account Tracking... Apr 12 13:54:50 utility lfd[22765]: SSH Tracking... Apr 12 13:54:50 utility lfd[22765]: SU Tracking... Apr 12 13:54:50 utility lfd[22765]: daemon restart requested Apr 12 13:54:50 utility lfd[22772]: HUP Apr 12 13:54:50 utility lfd[22772]: daemon stopped Apr 12 13:54:50 utility lfd[22773]: HUP Apr 12 13:54:50 utility lfd[22773]: daemon stopped Apr 12 13:54:51 utility lfd[22776]: daemon started on host.provider.com - csf v8.20 (generic) Apr 12 13:54:51 utility lfd[22776]: CSF Tracking... Apr 12 13:54:51 utility lfd[22776]: IPv6 Enabled... Apr 12 13:54:51 utility lfd[22779]: cPanel upgrade detected, restarting ConfigServer services... Apr 12 13:54:51 utility lfd[22776]: LOAD Tracking... Apr 12 13:54:51 utility lfd[22779]: cPanel upgrade detected, restarting lfd Apr 12 13:54:51 utility lfd[22776]: Country Code Lookups... Apr 12 13:54:51 utility lfd[22776]: System Integrity Tracking... Apr 12 13:54:51 utility lfd[22776]: Exploit Tracking... Apr 12 13:54:51 utility lfd[22776]: Directory Watching... Apr 12 13:54:51 utility lfd[22776]: Temp to Perm Block Tracking... Apr 12 13:54:51 utility lfd[22776]: Account Tracking... Apr 12 13:54:51 utility lfd[22776]: SSH Tracking... Apr 12 13:54:51 utility lfd[22776]: SU Tracking... Apr 12 13:54:51 utility lfd[22776]: daemon restart requested Apr 12 13:54:51 utility lfd[22782]: HUP Apr 12 13:54:51 utility lfd[22782]: daemon stopped Apr 12 13:54:51 utility lfd[22787]: daemon started on host.provider - csf v8.20 (generic) Apr 12 13:54:51 utility lfd[22787]: CSF Tracking... Apr 12 13:54:51 utility lfd[22787]: IPv6 Enabled... Apr 12 13:54:51 utility lfd[22787]: LOAD Tracking... Apr 12 13:54:51 utility lfd[22790]: cPanel upgrade detected, restarting ConfigServer services... Apr 12 13:54:51 utility lfd[22790]: cPanel upgrade detected, restarting lfd Apr 12 13:54:51 utility lfd[22787]: Country Code Lookups... Apr 12 13:54:51 utility lfd[22787]: System Integrity Tracking... Apr 12 13:54:51 utility lfd[22787]: Exploit Tracking... Apr 12 13:54:51 utility lfd[22787]: Directory Watching... Apr 12 13:54:51 utility lfd[22787]: Temp to Perm Block Tracking... Apr 12 13:54:51 utility lfd[22787]: Account Tracking... Apr 12 13:54:51 utility lfd[22787]: SSH Tracking... Apr 12 13:54:51 utility lfd[22787]: SU Tracking... Apr 12 13:54:51 utility lfd[22787]: daemon restart requested Apr 12 13:54:51 utility lfd[22793]: HUP Apr 12 13:54:51 utility lfd[22793]: daemon stopped Apr 12 13:54:52 utility lfd[22798]: daemon started on host.provider.com - csf v8.20 (generic) Apr 12 13:54:52 utility lfd[22798]: CSF Tracking... Apr 12 13:54:52 utility lfd[22798]: IPv6 Enabled... Apr 12 13:54:52 utility lfd[22798]: LOAD Tracking... Apr 12 13:54:52 utility lfd[22801]: cPanel upgrade detected, restarting ConfigServer services... Apr 12 13:54:52 utility lfd[22801]: cPanel upgrade detected, restarting lfd Apr 12 13:54:52 utility lfd[22798]: Country Code Lookups... Apr 12 13:54:52 utility lfd[22798]: System Integrity Tracking... Apr 12 13:54:52 utility lfd[22798]: Exploit Tracking... Apr 12 13:54:52 utility lfd[22798]: Directory Watching... Apr 12 13:54:52 utility lfd[22798]: Temp to Perm Block Tracking... Apr 12 13:54:52 utility lfd[22798]: Account Tracking... Apr 12 13:54:52 utility lfd[22798]: SSH Tracking... Apr 12 13:54:52 utility lfd[22798]: SU Tracking... Apr 12 13:54:52 utility lfd[22798]: daemon restart requested Apr 12 13:54:52 utility lfd[22804]: HUP Apr 12 13:54:52 utility lfd[22804]: daemon stopped Apr 12 13:54:52 utility lfd[22805]: HUP Apr 12 13:54:52 utility lfd[22805]: daemon stopped Apr 12 13:54:52 utility lfd[22809]: daemon started on utility.arvixevps.com - csf v8.20 (generic)
    These go on indefinitely. This only started occuring once CSF was updated. Any insight would be appreciated. Thanks again.
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  • cPanelMichael
    I see a thread on the CSF forums that might relate to this report: LFD Restart Bug for cPanel Version Checking - ConfigServer Community Forum It suggests setting "GENERIC" from "1" to "0" in the "/etc/csf/csf.conf" file to address the issue. Thank you.
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  • tmurdock
    That was indeed my problem, thank you for pointing me in that direction. For anyone else that finds this, a restart of CSF is required.
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