I quicker way to take down a machine is this:
# dd if=/dev/random of=/dev/port bs=1M count=2
Should take a little less than a second to kernel panic your machine.
As Jim mentioned, have a look at limits.conf to help fix your fork bomb
problem...just don't set it too low!!
(if someone has root access, they have *several* ways to take down your
machine, including 'reboot', and 'shutdown'...)
Cheers,
Mike
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:centos-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
> israel.garcia@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> Sent: April 24, 2007 3:26 PM
> To: centos@xxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Regarding fork bomb in a CentOS 4.4 Server!
>
>
> 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?
>
> regards,
> Israel
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