Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!decwrl!ucbvax!mindcrf.UUCP!karish From: karish@mindcrf.UUCP Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions Subject: Re: How do you handle while(1) fork(); ? Summary: With extreme prejudice Message-ID: <9007181759.AA16078@mindcrf.mindcraft.com> Date: 18 Jul 90 17:59:58 GMT References: <841@massey.ac.nz> <671@mtune.ATT.COM> <21028:Jul1807:45:0590@kramden.acf.nyu.edu> Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: Mindcraft, Inc. Lines: 17 In article <21028:Jul1807:45:0590@kramden.acf.nyu.edu> brnstnd@kramden.acf.nyu.edu (Dan Bernstein) writes: >In article price@chakra.unl.edu (Chad Price) writes: >> What you need to do is renice the processes down and then kill them >> all. > >Your solutions are based on very slow shell scripts, so sufficiently >clever malicious processes can dodge them. If you're dealing with a malicious process, go ahead and reboot the machine. Then hang the perpetrator by his/her toes in your users' terminal room, as an example. -- Chuck Karish karish@mindcraft.com Mindcraft, Inc. (415) 323-9000