On Tue, May 30, 2000 at 09:17:40PM -0500, Brad wrote: > On Tue, May 30, 2000 at 11:50:12AM -0700, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > > I hit my work system remotely this morning to check mail and got > > > > bash: fork: resource temporarily unavailable > > > [SNIP] > > there too). pstree showed a heck of a lot of cron jobs. Found and > > killed the root cron process, then slaughtered the rest with: > > Do any of your users have anything in their crontabs (look in > /var/spool/cron/crontabs)? Is there anything odd in /etc/cron*? Any > funny-looking entries in /var/log/syslog, /var/log/cron.log, or wherever > else cron logs to on your system? hmm that brings up an interesting question, is there a way to enforce resource limits on users' cron jobs? that would seem to be a convenient way to bypass the pam based resource limits, that would ordinarly stop things like fork bombs or such... > > -- > finger for GPG public key. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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