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From: Joe Greco <jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com>
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Subject: Re: /sbin/init permission
To: bde@zeta.org.au (Bruce Evans)
Date: Tue, 15 Oct 1996 13:01:11 -0500 (CDT)
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In-Reply-To: <199610151752.DAA18137@godzilla.zeta.org.au> from "Bruce Evans" at Oct 16, 96 03:52:05 am
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> >PLEASE DO NOT MAKE THIS EXECUTABLE BY 'other'.  It is very possible to 
> >bring a system to its knees if there is even a moderate amount of UUCP 
> >work by doing
> >
> >while true; do
> >	/usr/libexec/uucp/uuxqt&
> >done
> 
> Is this much different from any other fork bomb?

Yes, it is an I/O bomb.

It is not much different than

while true; do
	du -s / &
	sleep 2
done

> >You probably do not want to run uuxqt if you have a NFS mounted /usr because
> >you probably have a NFS mounted /var and Taylor himself says not to run
> >UUCP on a NFS mounted partition due to locking problems.  
> 
> Well, I have an nfs-mounted /usr, a ufs /var, and don't normally run uucp :-).

:-)

... JG