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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!mel.dit.csiro.au!jaguar!tim From: tim@catt.citri.edu.au (Tim Liddelow) Subject: Re: [386bsd] How To Nuke 386bsd!!! Message-ID: <1992Dec7.000113.20304@mel.dit.csiro.au> Sender: news@mel.dit.csiro.au Reply-To: tim@catt.citri.edu.au Organization: CATT Centre at CITRI References: <ByntK9.1D6@news.chalmers.se> Date: Mon, 7 Dec 92 00:01:13 GMT Lines: 32 In article 1D6@news.chalmers.se, dana@me.chalmers.se (Dan Andersson) writes: > >Hi there... I just found out a 'small' bug in 386bsd. > >I happened to mistype some zeroes in 'limit datasize 5000000' in tcshell. > >It was an immediate kill... The system rebooted instantly. > >Yesss, i did test again, same result. It seems to me that it is very >serious if anyone can nuke the system so easy. It also seems like all >users can nuke the system at any time and location. > >Suggestion. > >Pls anyone, that are working on version 0.2. Take a look at thiss little one. > > >Dan Andersson /// dana@theta.me.chalmers.se This doesn't happen on my system. It seems to just stay at 32768K. --- ________________________________________________________________________________ Tim Liddelow for(;;) fork(); Systems Programmer Centre of Advanced Technology in Telecommunications My brain on a bad day. CITRI, Melbourne, Australia internet : tim@kimba.catt.citri.edu.au Phone : +61 3 282 2455 Fax : +61 3 282 2444 ________________________________________________________________________________