From owner-freebsd-security Tue Jul 10 21: 8: 3 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from cage.simianscience.com (cage.simianscience.com [64.7.134.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7E27437B405 for ; Tue, 10 Jul 2001 21:07:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) Received: (from root@localhost) by cage.simianscience.com (8.11.4/8.11.2) id f6B47uG52090; Wed, 11 Jul 2001 00:07:56 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) Received: from chimp (fcage [192.168.0.2]) by cage.simianscience.com (8.11.4/8.11.2av) with ESMTP id f6B47qG52081; Wed, 11 Jul 2001 00:07:52 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) Message-Id: <4.2.2.20010711000547.05af8f00@192.168.0.12> X-Sender: mdtancsa@192.168.0.12 X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.2.2 Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2001 00:07:51 -0400 To: Ryan , freebsd-security@freebsd.org From: Mike Tancsa Subject: Re: Kernel Panic In-Reply-To: <000901c109be$6e1a5420$45d8db40@mhx800> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed X-Virus-Scanned: by AMaViS perl-10 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 At 11:03 PM 7/10/2001 -0500, Ryan wrote: >login.conf my boy.. How can you limit the amount of disk i/o per user in login.conf ? e.g. 10 of the finds, especially if its a big disk will busy out the drive. ---Mike >----- 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 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Mike Tancsa, tel +1 519 651 3400 Network Administration, mike@sentex.net Sentex Communications www.sentex.net Cambridge, Ontario Canada www.sentex.net/mike To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message