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To: Matthew Hunt <mph@astro.caltech.edu>
Subject: Re: New exploit ? Patch ? (from BUGTRAQ Aug26 1999) 
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Date: Thu, 26 Aug 1999 12:06:36 -0600
From: Warner Losh <imp@village.org>
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In message <19990826110301.A3048@wopr.caltech.edu> Matthew Hunt writes:
: On Thu, Aug 26, 1999 at 11:33:30AM -0600, Warner Losh wrote:
: 
: > #!/bin/sh
: > limits -c 0
: > /usr/sbin/periodic.bin $*
: 
: I believe "limits" should read "ulimit".  "limits" is /usr/bin/limits,
: and "ulimit" is the /bin/sh builtin.
: 
: wopr:~$ cat blah
: #!/bin/sh
: limits -c 0
: limits
: ulimit -c 0
: limits

i do believe that you are right.  That's what I get for whipping out a
test case w/o testing it completely...

Warner


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