If the ODBC service won't stop gracefully, you can kill the "swstrtr.exe" process via task manager. Depending on how you have your service recovery configured, it may automatically restart or you may have to go into services and restart it.
On 10/25/11 8:20 PM, Kym Kovan wrote: > On 26/10/2011 14:00, Ben Conner wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I host a number of sites, many of which use ODBC entries mainly to MS Access. >> In the last 30 hours ODBC connections stopped working. I've never even seen >> this happen before and was unable to gracefully stop the CF ODBC >> client/server >> services. Had to reboot the server to clear it out. >> >> Anyone seen this before, and/or even know which services I can kill and >> restart >> so I don't have to reboot the server? > We are seeing a greatly increased level of SQL injection attacks for the > last week or so, and using a new technique to get past some of the > stoppers. Maybe your system locked up on handling something like that. > (Insert standard statements about MS Access and sqlqueryparam here...) > > Chances are it was the database that hung so restarting CF won't help, a > reboot is the best option. > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:348349 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
