Ashley & SuSE Security bunch.. I've been asked by several people for my Netscape script. So, I'll post it here. It's *very* simple, so don't expect too much. -Nick #! /bin/bash LIMIT=164000 killall -9 netscape ulimit -m $LIMIT -v $LIMIT -d $LIMIT ulimit -a nice -2 netscape &

I would like to see your script. It sounds useful. Perhaps even more than $0.02 worth.

On Fri, Apr 20, 2001 at 07:42:32PM +0600, Nick LeRoy wrote:

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Just thought I'd add my $0.02 worth in...

I *always* run netscape from a script which uses ulimit to set the amount of memory it can get. If I don't, it sometimes sucks the life out of the machine in similar ways by using all memory. With it ulimitted, it dies after a while (when it can't get any more memory), but my system still lives on. I've been doing this for serveral years.

-Nick

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While this might not be a security related problem I'd appreciate any hints/tips/advice from the experts here.

Did you test to open the mail again after the reboot? maybe its some mad code in it? Netscape also has many memleaks .. maybe you've just read the mail on the wrong day for netscape ;) i would check the mail for some mad code. did you see the load of the maschine?

I tried opening the mail (cautiously) and it worked fine ... hmmm. It's a php-general-list-digest, so it does contain code snippets.

I was not able to see the machine load. I tried top, but the command did not produce any output. This was about the same time, my ssh died.

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