Dan Brosemer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I have a machine which I don't have access to the console of, which
> has run almost completely out of RAM:
> Due (entierly my fault) to a runaway perl script which
> (unfortunately) runs as root.
> I have an open SSH connection to this machine running bash as a
> normal user. su fails for lack of RAM:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:[~]$ su
> Password:
> bash: xmalloc: cannot allocate 2048 bytes (0 bytes allocated)
^^^^
Hmmm.... It seems that not _su_ fails, but _bash_ (the one which su
tries to execute, I guess) fails. Perhaps you can still execute small
programs? Does something like 'su -c "kill <pid of the evil
process>"' work?
hth,
moritz
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