Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 17 Feb 1999 17:36:44 +0000 (GMT) | From | Mark Harburn <> | Subject | Re: inodes + strobe + unusable system |
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nope, normal user.
Mark Harburn
On Wed, 17 Feb 1999, Lawrence Walton wrote:
> Just a idle question where you root when you ran these processes? > > *--* Mail: lawrence@otak-k.com > *--* Voice: 425.739.4247 > *--* Fax: 425.827.9577 > *--* HTTP://www.otak-k.com/~lawrence/ > -------------------------------------- > - - - - - - O t a k i n c . - - - - - > > > > On Wed, 17 Feb 1999, Mark Harburn wrote: > > > Hi, > > I was playing around on my system at home the other day, it seemed when > > i loaded up say 40-50 copies of strobe, strobe -f'ing a host elswhere on > > my network that strobe ate all the inodes on my system. The system was > > left for 6 hours to see if it could recover, but kept on saying "no inodes > > free - contact linus" or similar (the actual syslog messages was in the > > last e-mail regarding inodes i sent). . All process's on the system > > where fork'ing or core dumping when i tried them. even when i tried to > > reboot it fork'd 6-10 times. A reboot did fix the system, howeve rremotly > > their was no access during those six hours. > > > > I was wondering if there's anything to stop this "DOS" like attack on a > > system. As i'm still trying to determine what caused it on my system, as > > their doesn't seem to be any copies of strobe on it..... > > > > > > Thank's for your time. > > > > Mark Harburn. > > > > > > - > > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu > > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ > > >
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