[CentOS] Regarding fork bomb in a CentOS 4.4 Server!

On 4/24/07, israel.garcia at cimex.com.cu <israel.garcia at cimex.com.cu> wrote:
> Hi again, I was reading from the net
> http://www.kriptopolis.org/node/4067 about a forkbomb and ran it from a
> root console  in a non-critical machine running CentOS4.4 and the serevr
> goes down... the command I ran was :(){ :|:& };:
>
> Please, does anyone knows how to aboid this on  CentOS?

Sure. Set process limits on your users. Check out
/etc/security/limits.conf and salt the values to taste.

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