From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Aug 7 22:12:53 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA00753 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Fri, 7 Aug 1998 22:12:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from SchematiX.net (schematix.net [24.234.31.158]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA00748 for ; Fri, 7 Aug 1998 22:12:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from scott@SchematiX.net) Received: from localhost (scott@localhost) by SchematiX.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id WAA09608; Fri, 7 Aug 1998 22:11:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from scott@SchematiX.net) Date: Fri, 7 Aug 1998 22:11:11 -0700 (PDT) From: Scott To: Joe Gleason cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Quota bug crashing system? In-Reply-To: <001101bdc280$14be9a40$0171a1ce@bug.tasam.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG When did you last recompile your system? There was a kernel bug while back that allowed regular users to crash the system. The exploit is on rootshell if you want to take a look. I don't recall the exact date when the bug was fixed but i seem to remember sometime around the end of June. 2.2.7 isn't affected. Perhaps you should cvsup and make world? On Fri, 7 Aug 1998, Joe Gleason wrote: > I run a shell server and I suspect that some of my recent crashes have been > due to a problem with quotas. > > When I was running 2.2.2 I had a strange problem with quotas. Whenever I > had files owned by uid's of users that were no longer on the system, the > size of my quota.user file became very strange. It would on occasion be > reported as being greater than the total size of the drive itself. I found > that when I checked for and removed unowned files, this problem did not > occer. > > Now under 2.2.6, I thought the problem was fixed so I removed some of my > work around scripting. It seems that instead of having strange sizes of my > quota.user file, my system would randomly crash. When it does these > crashes, it makes no comment in my /var/log/messages to give me any hint as > to the cause. After I removed the owned files, this no longer seems to be > happening. > > If anyone knows anything about this, please let me know. > > Joe Gleason > Tasam > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message