On Thursday 11 August 2016 12:47:09 Nicolas George wrote: CC:ing emc-developers, and trinity-users who may not yet be aware of this tcp attack vector thats quite dangerous. And my post to trinity-users was in error, so this corrects it. > Le quintidi 25 thermidor, an CCXXIV, Gene Heskett a écrit : > > to add should be changed to forward slashes: > > You are wrong, sysctl supports both slashes and dots as separators. > > Regards, I changed it back Nicolas, and sysctl -p now returns: root@coyote:/etc/init.d# sysctl -p sysctl: cannot stat /proc/sys//net.ipv4.tcp_challenge_ack_limit: No such file or directory Put the slashes back and I get this: root@coyote:/etc/init.d# sysctl -p .net.ipv4.tcp_challenge_ack_limit = 999999999 Which I assume is the correct response. And yet the echo shows all dots. WTH? Ahh, my bad, no damned biscuit, an extra leading slash snuck in. But if a dot and a slash are the same to sysctl, I should have a file in the wrong place? But I do not. /net is empty. It is in the right place now. And cats the correct value. Sorry about the confusion everybody. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: trinity-users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: trinity-users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Read list messages on the web archive: http://trinity-users.pearsoncomputing.net/ Please remember not to top-post: http://trinity.pearsoncomputing.net/mailing_lists/#top-posting
