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Date:      Sun, 24 Jun 2001 09:20:03 -0700
From:      "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com>
To:        <des@ofug.org>
Cc:        <js43064n@pace.edu>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>, <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG>, <freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   RE: Kernel Panic
Message-ID:  <006001c0fcc9$86301ce0$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com>
In-Reply-To: <xzpithl7tw9.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>

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>-----Original Message-----
>From: des@ofug.org [mailto:des@ofug.org]
>Sent: Sunday, June 24, 2001 8:57 AM
>To: Ted Mittelstaedt
>Cc: js43064n@pace.edu; freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG;
>freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG; freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG
>Subject: Re: Kernel Panic
>
>
>"Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com> writes:
>> That would be impossible unless you had "." in your path.  If
>> you did (which is a very BAD thing) then yes your script probably
>> loaded itself (assuming you named it "pine).  This is why the
>> system defaults to NOT having "." in the path.
>
>No: 1) he simply had the script, named "pine", in a directory that was
>in his search path (e.g. $HOME/bin),

That's a case I hadn't thought of - however, "local" search paths should
generally be at the END of the user's path, not the beginning, in which case
the system binary gets called first.

Both cases are bad practice, and shouldn't be present on a normal system.

>
>Yes it is, unfortunately.  FreeBSD doesn't like running out of swap
>space.  Matt Dillon has been trying to correct this in -CURRENT, but
>it's not completely fixed yet.
>

I think in that situation you would have to have a swap partition that's
smaller than the maximum amount of ram that a normal user is permitted to
allocate - in that case the limits are set too high.


Ted Mittelstaedt                      tedm@toybox.placo.com
Author of:          The FreeBSD Corporate Networker's Guide
Book website:         http://www.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com



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