Messages in this thread |  | | Subject | Re: syslog() blocks on glibc 2.1.3 with kernel 2.2.x | Date | Sat, 28 Oct 2000 20:51:45 -0300 | From | Horst von Brand <> |
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sweh@spuddy.mew.co.uk (Stephen Harris) said: > A lot of talk here has been about syslog and DNS blocking, but the > original message mentioned: > > > If you send SIGSTOP to syslogd on a Red Hat 6.2 system (glibc 2.1.3, > > kernel 2.2.x), within a few minutes you will find your entire machine > > grinds to a halt. For example, nobody can log in.
Great! Yet another way in which root can get the rope to shoot herself in the foot. Anything _really_ new? -- Horst von Brand vonbrand@sleipnir.valparaiso.cl Casilla 9G, Vin~a del Mar, Chile +56 32 672616 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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