SCSI thanks, wild user processes
Gary Mills
mills at ccu.umanitoba.ca
Sat Jun 1 01:45:30 AEST 1991
In <1991May30.210639.17442 at csl.dl.nec.com> harrison at csl.dl.nec.com (Mark Harrison) writes:
>Another question: We recently had a system crash due to
>a user running a shell script that accidentally invoked
>itself.
>Is there
>1. A way to keep this from crashing the system?
You could do something like this, which we invoke from /etc/rc.local
#!/bin/sh
#kpatch: apply local patches to the running kernel
# set max per-user processes to 200
N=/vmunix
D=/dev/mem
adb -w -k $N $D <<\EOF
maxuprc/W 0t200
$q
EOF
#!/end
>2. If the system has crashed, to determine that
> this was the reason?
If you have a dump, looking at the process table with ``ps'' should
show hundreds of copies of the shell script running.
>We are running SunOS 4.1.1.
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-Gary Mills- -Networking Group- -U of M Computer Services-
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