Thanks guys! That will keep me from having to reboot the server at least (I hope). Interestingly enough it hasn't happened again since I sent out the email.
--Ben On 10/25/2011 8:48 PM, .jonah wrote: > 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:348361 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm