Date: Tue, 15 Oct 1996 13:01:11 -0500 (CDT) From: Joe Greco <jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com> To: bde@zeta.org.au (Bruce Evans) Cc: bde@zeta.org.au, jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, j@uriah.heep.sax.de Subject: Re: /sbin/init permission Message-ID: <199610151801.NAA26208@brasil.moneng.mei.com> 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
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