yuckypants
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I've been fighting with what I thought was a memory leak for about 4 days now - and I think I finally figured it out (htop saved me); dropbear was running a crazy amount of processes and not killing the processes once they're finished. The sessions are created because I use Home Assistant with an asus integration that logs in and pulls router stats. I've used this integration for years, and it hasn't been updated recently, so I don't know why it's suddenly a problem now. I also don't want to stop using it.
Anyway, I figured that I'll just create a cronjob to kill and restart dropbear every hour or so. I can successfully kill the processes, but I can't seem to restart it. The way I've found to restart it is to go into the GUI, in the Administration > System tab, and set Enable SSH to NO, and then back to LAN ONLY. I'd like to automate this so I don't have to frequently do it - unless watchdog handles it and I've just been impatient?
Of course, I also use a custom port, so I'll need to include that option too.
BTW, this was a problem on stock firmware, which is why I went to Merlin to see if it was the firmware. Now I don't ever want to go back.
Anyway, I figured that I'll just create a cronjob to kill and restart dropbear every hour or so. I can successfully kill the processes, but I can't seem to restart it. The way I've found to restart it is to go into the GUI, in the Administration > System tab, and set Enable SSH to NO, and then back to LAN ONLY. I'd like to automate this so I don't have to frequently do it - unless watchdog handles it and I've just been impatient?
Of course, I also use a custom port, so I'll need to include that option too.
BTW, this was a problem on stock firmware, which is why I went to Merlin to see if it was the firmware. Now I don't ever want to go back.
