From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Jul 13 21:46:14 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from janus.syracuse.net (janus.syracuse.net [205.232.47.15]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A65E014D5F for ; Tue, 13 Jul 1999 21:46:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from green@FreeBSD.org) Received: from localhost (green@localhost) by janus.syracuse.net (8.9.2/8.8.7) with ESMTP id AAA98272; Wed, 14 Jul 1999 00:46:02 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: janus.syracuse.net: green owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 14 Jul 1999 00:46:01 -0400 (EDT) From: "Brian F. Feldman" X-Sender: green@janus.syracuse.net To: Matthew Dillon Cc: Noriyuki Soda , Jason Thorpe , bright@rush.net, dcs@newsguy.com, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org, jon@oaktree.co.uk, tech-userlevel@netbsd.org Subject: Re: Replacement for grep(1) (part 2) In-Reply-To: <199907140025.RAA82339@apollo.backplane.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 13 Jul 1999, Matthew Dillon wrote: > There are other ways. For example, even if a user account is resource > limited, root processes (such as sendmail, popper, identd, and so forth) > are not. Attacks against these servers generally result in very high > loads and sometimes make it difficult to login to fix the problem, but do > not result in running out of swap. Inetd is rate-limited by default nowadays, so this really doesn't apply. > > -Matt > Matthew Dillon > > > Brian Fundakowski Feldman _ __ ___ ____ ___ ___ ___ green@FreeBSD.org _ __ ___ | _ ) __| \ FreeBSD: The Power to Serve! _ __ | _ \._ \ |) | http://www.FreeBSD.org/ _ |___/___/___/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message