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. -- During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act. George Orwell