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Date:      Wed, 16 May 2001 01:43:36 -0500
From:      Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com>
To:        "Brian O'Shea" <boshea@ricochet.net>
Cc:        Matthew Emmerton <matt@gsicomp.on.ca>, John Indra <john@office.naver.co.id>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: My network is dead because of this program :(
Message-ID:  <20010516014336.C26749@dan.emsphone.com>
In-Reply-To: <20010515230354.A62767@shaolin.hq.netapp.com>; from "Brian O'Shea" on Tue May 15 23:03:54 GMT 2001
References:  <20010516092035.A79109@office.naver.co.id> <00b401c0ddb2$23b2c710$1200a8c0@gsicomp.on.ca> <20010515230354.A62767@shaolin.hq.netapp.com>

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In the last episode (May 15), Brian O'Shea said:
> On Tue, May 15, 2001 at 10:44:32PM -0400, Matthew Emmerton wrote:
> [...]
> > > After going to single user mode, cause I can't kill the offending
> > > program once it is running in multiuser mode (even kill -9 won't
> > > work ...
> 
> Probably because the program is forking and you can't kill it's
> children fast enough.

A handy way to kill forkbombs like this is "su username -c kill -9 -1",
which will kill all the processes owned by that user at once.

-- 
	Dan Nelson
	dnelson@emsphone.com

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