Apache Crashes Daily

[kaon]

Hello All,

I am running a dedicated server.

My apache crashes daily and I am investigating the cause of it.

I have found this strange message in my apache error_log.

Can someone please understand this?

[FONT="Courier New"][SIZE="1"][Mon Apr 20 11:37:32 2009] [error] [client 61.160.217.15] File does not exist: /var/www/html/404.shtml
--22:48:33--  http://77.226.211.222/.../.vk
Connecting to 77.226.211.222:80... --22:48:33--  http://77.226.211.222/.../.vk
Connecting to 77.226.211.222:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 29569 (29K) [text/plain]
Saving to: `.vk'

     0K ..200 OK
Length: 29569 (29K) [text/plain]
Saving to: `.vk.1'

     0K ................ ........... .......... ........                        100% 13.6K=2.1s

22:48:35 (13.6 KB/s) - `.vk' saved [29569/29569]

. ........                        100% 12.2K=2.4s

22:48:36 (12.2 KB/s) - `.vk.1' saved [29569/29569]

  % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
                                 Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed

  3 29569    3  1113    0     0    929      0  0:00:31  0:00:01  0:00:30   929  % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
                                 Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed

  3 29569    3  1113    0     0   1091      0  0:00:27  0:00:01  0:00:26  1091
 42 29569   42 12633    0     0   7035      0  0:00:04  0:00:01  0:00:03 19264
 18 29569   18  5433    0     0   3603      0  0:00:08  0:00:01  0:00:07  8834
 96 29569   96 28473    0     0   9959      0  0:00:02  0:00:02 --:--:-- 16472
100 29569  100 29569    0     0  10195      0  0:00:02  0:00:02 --:--:-- 16709
sh: fetch: command not found

 47 29569   47 14073    0     0   5386      0  0:00:05  0:00:02  0:00:03  8130
100 29569  100 29569    0     0   9177      0  0:00:03  0:00:03 --:--:-- 12922
sh: fetch: command not found
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Further there is a perl script with name vk in the tmp/ directory.

How can someone save a file from apache in tmp directory?

Please help.

 

[scsi]

You have an exploitable script somewhere on your server. You better have an expert look at your server if you are unexperienced to do so.

 

[nobaloney]

There's another current thread on this project, and as recently as yesterday or today, user tillo responded with a fix.

Jeff