From owner-freebsd-questions Tue May 15 23:44: 5 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BF94837B422; Tue, 15 May 2001 23:44:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.11.3/8.11.3) id f4G6hbj16392; Wed, 16 May 2001 01:43:37 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dan) Date: Wed, 16 May 2001 01:43:36 -0500 From: Dan Nelson To: "Brian O'Shea" Cc: Matthew Emmerton , John Indra , 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> References: <20010516092035.A79109@office.naver.co.id> <00b401c0ddb2$23b2c710$1200a8c0@gsicomp.on.ca> <20010515230354.A62767@shaolin.hq.netapp.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.17i In-Reply-To: <20010515230354.A62767@shaolin.hq.netapp.com>; from "Brian O'Shea" on Tue May 15 23:03:54 GMT 2001 X-OS: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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