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Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!mel.dit.csiro.au!jaguar!tim
From: tim@catt.citri.edu.au (Tim Liddelow)
Subject: Re: [386bsd]  How To Nuke 386bsd!!!
Message-ID: <1992Dec7.000113.20304@mel.dit.csiro.au>
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Reply-To: tim@catt.citri.edu.au
Organization: CATT Centre at CITRI
References: <ByntK9.1D6@news.chalmers.se>
Date: Mon, 7 Dec 92 00:01:13 GMT
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In article 1D6@news.chalmers.se, dana@me.chalmers.se (Dan Andersson) writes:
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>Hi there...  I just found out a 'small' bug in 386bsd.
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>I happened to mistype some zeroes in 'limit datasize 5000000' in tcshell.
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>It was an immediate kill... The system rebooted instantly.
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>Yesss, i did test again, same result.  It seems to me that it is very
>serious if anyone can nuke the system so easy. It also seems like all
>users can nuke the system at any time and location.
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>Suggestion.
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>Pls anyone, that are working on version 0.2. Take a look at thiss little one.
>
>
>Dan Andersson          ///   dana@theta.me.chalmers.se


This doesn't happen on my system.  It seems to just stay at 32768K.

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