I thought you might find this helpful. (I brought this issue up with the Slackware folks once, and they told me basically this.) http://wiki.craz1.homelinux.com/index.php/Linux:Security:Forkbomb I was also told that the ability to spawn such rampant forks/processes is controlled by default in Debian. Is this the case? Here is an LQ thread where I brought it up: http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-security-4/how-can-i-prevent-forkbombs-3... I would like to see something done about this, with Ubuntu as popular as it is, even as a server in some cases. Is there a way that in the future, one could simply download a package or click a box or something and have a limit set, like the links suggest? That would make things just "that much" more convenient for system administrators (and might help them/us to remember to set these limits, too...). Thanks. -Dane On Fri, 2007-11-16 at 23:04 -0800, Martin Olsson wrote:-
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