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From: YATES@c.chem.upenn.edu ("YATES, JOHN H.")
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: talkd goes wild
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Date: 22 Jun 91 00:26:00 GMT
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A couple times a month I run out of process slots due to 20 or 30
copies of talkd being active. We run IRIX 3.3.1 , is there a bug
in it so I should remove it from the system? Perhaps there is a
known way novice users can "abuse" it? Worst case: some hacker
has found a hole and ...
Thanks, John
yates@a.chem.upenn.edu