Re: Regarding fork bomb in a CentOS 4.4 Server!

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On 4/24/07, israel.garcia@xxxxxxxxxxxx <israel.garcia@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi again, I was reading from the net
http://www.kriptopolis.org/node/4067 about a forkbomb and ran it from a
root console  in a non-critical machine running CentOS4.4 and the serevr
goes down... the command I ran was :(){ :|:& };:

Please, does anyone knows how to aboid this on  CentOS?

Sure. Set process limits on your users. Check out
/etc/security/limits.conf and salt the values to taste.

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During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.
George Orwell
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