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From: Doug Ambrisko <ambrisko@whistle.com>
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Subject: Re: Inetd dumped core - why?
In-Reply-To: <199708110102.LAA04674@henry.cs.adfa.oz.au> from Warren Toomey at "Aug 11, 97 11:02:04 am"
To: wkt@henry.cs.adfa.oz.au (Warren Toomey)
Date: Mon, 11 Aug 1997 11:04:34 -0700 (PDT)
Cc: freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG, julian@whistle.com (Julian Elischer)
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Warren Toomey writes:
| The inetd on my FreeBSD-2.1.7.1 box dumped core over the weekend. I've hunted
| thru the freebsd-security mail list archives in case there's a known attack
| involving inetd, without any luck. Has anybody any ideas as to what the problem
| might be? I've saved the core dump in case some clues may be found from it.

We are trying to track down a similar problem here with 2.2-stable.  We see
it mostly on 16M 486 machines that fork off a lot of children and does
a lot of swaping.  What hardware are you running?

Thanks,

Doug A.