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

Tue Apr 24 18:56:54 UTC 2007
Les Mikesell <lesmikesell at gmail.com>

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?
> 

If you don't want to be able to use all your resources, use 'ulimit' 
commands in /etc/profile to control the limits.

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   Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell at gmail.com