Re: Security - how to notice compromises.

[Al Hudson <nospam [at] york.ac.uk>]

On Fri, 25 Feb 2000, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:

>     Al> Heh, true, but it's not really the number of processes that
>     Al> does the damage so much as the rate at which they're created..
> 
> On my system `ulimit -u' responds "256".

146 on this one.. what does ulimit do then? Never seen it before!! The man
page is particularly poor.. in fact, no, I don't have a man page for it,
just the ulimit() c call. I hate it when that happens....

Cheers,

Alex.


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