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Date: Thu, 26 Aug 1999 11:03:01 -0700
From: Matthew Hunt <mph@astro.caltech.edu>
To: Warner Losh <imp@village.org>
Cc: Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net>, freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG,
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Subject: Re: New exploit ? Patch ? (from BUGTRAQ Aug26 1999)
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References: <3.0.5.32.19990826125500.01d258a0@staff.sentex.ca> <199908261733.LAA65999@harmony.village.org>
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On Thu, Aug 26, 1999 at 11:33:30AM -0600, Warner Losh wrote:

> #!/bin/sh
> limits -c 0
> /usr/sbin/periodic.bin $*

I believe "limits" should read "ulimit".  "limits" is /usr/bin/limits,
and "ulimit" is the /bin/sh builtin.

wopr:~$ cat blah
#!/bin/sh
limits -c 0
limits
ulimit -c 0
limits

wopr:~$ ./blah
Resource limits (current):
  coredumpsize            0 kb
Resource limits (current):
  cputime          infinity secs
  filesize         infinity kb
  datasize           524288 kb
  stacksize           65536 kb
  coredumpsize     infinity kb
  memoryuse        infinity kb
  memorylocked     infinity kb
  maxprocesses          128
  openfiles             128
Resource limits (current):
  cputime          infinity secs
  filesize         infinity kb
  datasize           524288 kb
  stacksize           65536 kb
  coredumpsize            0 kb
  memoryuse        infinity kb
  memorylocked     infinity kb
  maxprocesses          128
  openfiles             128

wopr:~$ uname -a
FreeBSD wopr.caltech.edu 4.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT #8: Thu Aug 26 09:13:16 PDT 1999     mph@wopr.caltech.edu:/a/src/sys/compile/WOPR  i386

(Sources about 2 days old.)

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