Date: Wed, 16 May 2001 01:43:36 -0500 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com> To: "Brian O'Shea" <boshea@ricochet.net> Cc: Matthew Emmerton <matt@gsicomp.on.ca>, John Indra <john@office.naver.co.id>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: My network is dead because of this program :( Message-ID: <20010516014336.C26749@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <20010515230354.A62767@shaolin.hq.netapp.com>; from "Brian O'Shea" on Tue May 15 23:03:54 GMT 2001 References: <20010516092035.A79109@office.naver.co.id> <00b401c0ddb2$23b2c710$1200a8c0@gsicomp.on.ca> <20010515230354.A62767@shaolin.hq.netapp.com>
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In the last episode (May 15), Brian O'Shea said: > On Tue, May 15, 2001 at 10:44:32PM -0400, Matthew Emmerton wrote: > [...] > > > After going to single user mode, cause I can't kill the offending > > > program once it is running in multiuser mode (even kill -9 won't > > > work ... > > Probably because the program is forking and you can't kill it's > children fast enough. A handy way to kill forkbombs like this is "su username -c kill -9 -1", which will kill all the processes owned by that user at once. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@emsphone.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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