Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2001 23:34:02 -0700 From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com> To: <js43064n@pace.edu>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>, <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG>, <freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: Kernel Panic Message-ID: <004a01c0fae5$539c9780$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> In-Reply-To: <200106211959.AA49807526@stmail.pace.edu>
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That absolutely will not crash a FreeBSD system that's not got other problems. However, what I think is going on here is that the system that you ran this on has buggy disk hardware. It's probably some IDE disk, right? I've got a system here that I've tried 5 different IDE paddle cards in, and on every one I've tried installing FreeBSD and doing different operations and within about 20 minutes I had crashed it and screweged the filesystem. I finally got so annoyed I dug up an old AHA1520 SCSI card and slapped a 1GB SCSI disk on it (the system isn't intended to be doing anything fancy) and it's been solid as a rock ever since. The best conclusion I have is that the ISA bus in the system has some clock speed error that doesen't affect the SCSI disk system. Ted Mittelstaedt tedm@toybox.placo.com Author of: The FreeBSD Corporate Networker's Guide Book website: http://www.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com >-----Original Message----- >From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG >[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Jonathan Slivko >Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2001 4:59 PM >To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG; >freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG >Subject: Kernel Panic > > >Hello, > >I just wrote a little shell script that, on the machine I tested >it on, crashed the box and forced a reboot. The contents of the >script was: > >#!/bin/sh >pine -i >rm -rf $HOME/dead.letter > >Thats the whole script. I don't see how something like that could >cause a kernel to crash. Would anyone mind trying to replicate >this on a test box. If it's a security issue, i'll forward it to >security when I get more information. > >-- Jonathan > >______________________________________________ >Jonathan M. Slivko <js43064n@pace.edu> >Technical Support, Black Lotus Communications >http://www.blacklotus.net -- check us out! >---------------------------------------------- > >___________________________________________________________________ >___ >Sent via the Pace University Mail system at stmail.pace.edu > > > > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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