On Fri, 21 Jan 2000, Kevin wrote:
Before I begin I know that I could restrict access to my computer and prevent this but I don't plan to do that.. My problem is that a hacker friend telnets in and run a small 10 line perl script a (a double fork) I think it is called. and my computer completely crashes. I have been reading for two days on how to prevent this and have come up with things like limiting the amount of processes a user can grab a hold of???? HOW DO I DO THIS.... never does anyone say it in terms a newbie can figure out
Or am I even on track???????? here is the code modified slighty #while (true) { # fork; # for ($x=0;$x=>1000;++$x) { # fork; fork; # } #}
HELP
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