Re: fork bomb protection

[Alexander List <alexlist@sbox.tu-graz.ac.at>]

On Thu, 31 Jan 2002, Thedore Knab wrote:

> Although I have spent a lot of time securing things,  I still fear that
> fork bombs may kill the box.
>
> Is there a way in the 2.4.17 kernel to prevent fork bombs from crashing
> a system ?

I think ulimit (builtin of bash) is your friend. Try ulimit -u. See
bash(1).

> I fear the students from the Operating Systems class.

Well, they can just sabotage themselves, or is there anything critical
running on those machines?

Alex


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