Re: fork bomb protection

2002-02-01 Thread Russell Coker
On Fri, 1 Feb 2002 06:16, martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach Thedore Knab <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.01.31.1922 +0100]: > > Is there a way in the 2.4.17 kernel to prevent fork bombs from crashing > > a system ? > > have a look at the kernel patches at www.grsecurity.net. i believe > a debian packa

Re: fork bomb protection

2002-02-01 Thread Russell Coker
On Fri, 1 Feb 2002 06:16, martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach Thedore Knab <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.01.31.1922 +0100]: > > Is there a way in the 2.4.17 kernel to prevent fork bombs from crashing > > a system ? > > have a look at the kernel patches at www.grsecurity.net. i believe > a debian pack

Re: fork bomb protection

2002-01-31 Thread Jeremy C. Reed
On Thu, 31 Jan 2002, Alexander List wrote: > > Is there a way in the 2.4.17 kernel to prevent fork bombs from crashing > > a system ? > > I think ulimit (builtin of bash) is your friend. Try ulimit -u. See > bash(1). To add to this: Make sure this is done with "hard" limits, so they can't be r

Re: fork bomb protection - thanks

2002-01-31 Thread Thedore Knab
Thanks for the tip. ted@albert:~$ ulimit -a core file size(blocks, -c) 0 data seg size (kbytes, -d) unlimited file size (blocks, -f) unlimited max locked memory (kbytes, -l) unlimited max memory size (kbytes, -m) unlimited open files(-n) 1

RE: fork bomb protection

2002-01-31 Thread Anders Gjære
Maybe PAM offer some features for this anders # -Original Message- # From: Thedore Knab [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] # Sent: 31. januar 2002 19:22 # To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] # Subject: fork bomb protection # # # I am an admin of a Debian woody Linux box for computer science majors

Re: fork bomb protection

2002-01-31 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Thedore Knab <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.01.31.1922 +0100]: > Is there a way in the 2.4.17 kernel to prevent fork bombs from crashing > a system ? have a look at the kernel patches at www.grsecurity.net. i believe a debian package is in the works. but ulimit can also do wonders... > I

Re: fork bomb protection

2002-01-31 Thread Alexander List
On Thu, 31 Jan 2002, Thedore Knab wrote: > Although I have spent a lot of time securing things, I still fear that > fork bombs may kill the box. > > Is there a way in the 2.4.17 kernel to prevent fork bombs from crashing > a system ? I think ulimit (builtin of bash) is your friend. Try ulimit -

fork bomb protection

2002-01-31 Thread Thedore Knab
I am an admin of a Debian woody Linux box for computer science majors. The machine is running the 2.4.17 kernel with iptables and quotas. Although I have spent a lot of time securing things, I still fear that fork bombs may kill the box. Is there a way in the 2.4.17 kernel to prevent fork bomb