I hope fork bombs aren't coming as news or a surprise to anyone on this list as they are neither new nor surprising. Check out limits.conf for a way to limit the impact of such an attack (restrict the DoS to a single user account or service rather than the entire system)
<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 8/27/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Niko Lilja</b> <<a href="mailto:niko.lilja@gmail.com">niko.lilja@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Well, as has been said when you realize the truth that there is no spoon, but instead there'll be a<br>bunch of forks instead, at least in linux on bash shell, tested ubuntu and RHEL this far.<br><br>By throwing a nice piece of line code as a command in bash shell (normal user) you can pretty much
<br>crash the whole server cause denial of service by giving a command in bash:<br><br>:() { :&:; } ;:<br><br><br>Almost as the ascii would be smiling..<br><span class="sg"><br>- N<br><br>
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