Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2001 11:56:04 -0400 From: "Jonathan Slivko" <js43064n@pace.edu> To: <js43064n@pace.edu>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>, <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG>, <freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG>, "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com> Subject: RE: Kernel Panic Message-ID: <200106221156.AA442106040@stmail.pace.edu>
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I think I see what caused the kernel to crash. What happened was this, I believe, is that since I didn't specify the regular pine binary, the script just loaded itself, thus throwing it into a loop. It's really a sad situation. -- Jonathan ______________________________________________ Jonathan M. Slivko <js43064n@pace.edu> Technical Support, Black Lotus Communications http://www.blacklotus.net -- check us out! ---------------------------------------------- ---------- Original Message ---------------------------------- From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com> Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2001 23:34:02 -0700 >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-stable" in the body of the message > ___________________________________________________________________ ___ 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
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