From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Apr 5 16:32:14 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from aphex.newgold.net (durham0-128.dsl.gtei.net [4.3.0.128]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2BFDE37B43C; Thu, 5 Apr 2001 16:32:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jmallett@newgold.net) Received: from localhost (jmallett@localhost) by aphex.newgold.net (8.10.1/8.10.1) with ESMTP id f35NVvk24375; Thu, 5 Apr 2001 19:31:59 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2001 19:31:55 -0400 (EDT) From: Joseph Mallett To: Brett Glass Cc: Chris Dillon , John Baldwin , Johann Visagie , Freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG, Dag-Erling Smorgrav Subject: Re: corporate announcement In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20010405170015.00c79410@localhost> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Or morons like me who see a lot of zombie connections from dead ssh connections and type 'killall sshd' to clean them all up at once, forgetting that will kill the main daemon, as well as the current session. I really shouldn't be allowed to breed. hehe /joseph -- Joseph Mallett Security Specialist +1 919 349 2976 www.newgold.net josephm@ohsmeg.com jmallett@newgold.net xMach: The proactively unbloated microkernel 4.4BSD-like operating system. www.xMach.org On Thu, 5 Apr 2001, Brett Glass wrote: > At 04:56 PM 4/5/2001, Chris Dillon wrote: > > >Heh, you'd have to be pretty stupid not to design a watchdog into any > >system that is sitting outside of easy reach, no matter how stable you > >think the operating system is. :-) > > I don't know how many admins I've met who admit to having locked > themselves out of their own systems (usually via bad firewall > rules). In many cases, they have had to drive miles to get to the > system console. > > Of course, in the case of Pathfinder, it would have been a > slightly longer drive. ;-) > > --Brett > > "Stupidity is like hydrogen; it's a basic building block of the > universe." -- Frank Zappa > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message