Re: [Cooker] Nothing about Linux, but it's too nice!!! [WAS: weird Windows 2000/XP bug]

2001-11-18 Thread Steven Lawrance
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Han > Sent: Thursday, November 15, 2001 4:49 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [Cooker] Nothing about Linux, but it's too nice!!! [WAS: > weird Windows 2000/XP bug] > > Juan Quintela ([EMAIL PROTECTED

RE: [Cooker] Nothing about Linux, but it's too nice!!! [WAS: weird Windows 2000/XP bug]

2001-11-15 Thread Alkis Evlogimenos
A more elegant (and safer) way is through /etc/security/limits.conf Alkis -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Han Sent: Thursday, November 15, 2001 4:49 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Cooker] Nothing about Linux, but it's too

Re: [Cooker] Nothing about Linux, but it's too nice!!! [WAS: weird Windows 2000/XP bug]

2001-11-15 Thread Han
Juan Quintela ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > "steven" == Steven Lawrance <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> I love Linux as much as anyone here, but to put things in perspective, how >> about this: >> void main(void) { >> while (1) >> fork(); >> } > You can fix this with limits, i.e. not letting any

Re: [Cooker] Nothing about Linux, but it's too nice!!! [WAS: weird Windows 2000/XP bug]

2001-11-15 Thread Juan Quintela
> "steven" == Steven Lawrance <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: steven> I love Linux as much as anyone here, but to put things in perspective, how steven> about this: steven> void main(void) { steven> while (1) steven> fork(); steven> } You can fix this with limits, i.e. not letting any user to

Re: [Cooker] Nothing about Linux, but it's too nice!!! [WAS: weird Windows 2000/XP bug]

2001-11-04 Thread Dan Mack
- Original Message - From: "Philip Van Hoof" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Steven Lawrance" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, November 04, 2001 10:09 AM Subject: Re: [Cooker] Nothing about Linux, but it's too nice!!! [WAS: wei

Re: [Cooker] Nothing about Linux, but it's too nice!!! [WAS: weird Windows 2000/XP bug]

2001-11-04 Thread Philip Van Hoof
On 2001.11.04 16:57 Steven Lawrance wrote: > I'll have to look into ulimit through PAM :-). Thanks for the info :-)!! For ulimit, you will have to check the information of bash. Since ulimit is a bash-thing. (man bash+/+ulimit). ulimit is for the processes forked by bash only I think, while PAM

Re: [Cooker] Nothing about Linux, but it's too nice!!! [WAS: weird Windows 2000/XP bug]

2001-11-04 Thread Steven Lawrance
I'll have to look into ulimit through PAM :-). Thanks for the info :-)!! I wonder if Windows has anything like ulimit? They only recently "innovated" filesystem quotas and symliks (did reparse points actually make it into 2000/XP?), so they may still be working on innovating other things like

Re: [Cooker] Nothing about Linux, but it's too nice!!! [WAS: weird Windows 2000/XP bug]

2001-11-04 Thread Philip Van Hoof
On 2001.11.04 16:25 Steven Lawrance wrote: > I love Linux as much as anyone here, but to put things in perspective, how > about this: > > void main(void) { > while (1) > fork(); > } > You can use ulimit and pam to limit max amount of processes, memory usage, max filedescriptors,

Re: [Cooker] Nothing about Linux, but it's too nice!!! [WAS: weird Windows 2000/XP bug]

2001-11-04 Thread Rainer Koschnick
On Sun, 4 Nov 2001 07:25:09 -0800 Steven Lawrance <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I love Linux as much as anyone here, but to put things in perspective, > how > about this: > > void main(void) { > while (1) > fork(); > } Yet.. here it's quite obvious what u r doing, you're to blame ;

Re: [Cooker] Nothing about Linux, but it's too nice!!! [WAS: weird Windows 2000/XP bug]

2001-11-04 Thread Steven Lawrance
I love Linux as much as anyone here, but to put things in perspective, how about this: void main(void) { while (1) fork(); } On Thursday 01 November 2001 10:16 am, you wrote: > I know it's not a Cooker-subject, but it's too comic and I want you to > smile with me ;o))) > Have a ni

Re: [Cooker] Nothing about Linux, but it's too nice!!! [WAS: weird Windows 2000/XP bug]

2001-11-02 Thread OS
Cygwin !!! I don't know much about Cygwin but the original posting says "causes Windows200/XP to reboot" The posting to the usenet news group had an incorrect #include. Correct this and this little beauty has rebooted every Window$ 2000 PC and locked every NT box we have tried it on ! It must

Re[2]: [Cooker] Nothing about Linux, but it's too nice!!! [WAS: weird Windows 2000/XP bug]

2001-11-02 Thread Onur Kucuk
Friday, November 02, 2001, 5:32:14 PM, you wrote: DD> Well.. I tried this on a 2000 machine with cygwin and gcc and changed DD> the include line to #include , but it didn't do anything DD> special... DD> Exactly what compiler and what circumstances? I compiled it on turbo-C 7 ( dos ) and it r

Re[2]: [Cooker] Nothing about Linux, but it's too nice!!! [WAS: weird Windows 2000/XP bug]

2001-11-02 Thread Onur Kucuk
YG> On Thu, 1 Nov 2001, Helge Kruse wrote: >> Did you read the source code? This program won't never be compiled. How can >> it do anything i.e. reboot any o/s, if it was never compiled yet? YG> C'mon YG> #include <-- YG> void main(){ YG> while(1) YG> cout<<"\t\t\b\b\b\b\b\b";} YG> It

Re: [Cooker] Nothing about Linux, but it's too nice!!! [WAS: weird Windows 2000/XP bug]

2001-11-01 Thread OS
I believe it came from a uunet news group. The original was subtely different. It had something more like printf(" \t\t\t\b\b\b\b"). We tried it, and it works. You get no warning ! The PC just re-boots ! We tried various combinations but found the above worked on all PC's. It works in java too

RE: [Cooker] Nothing about Linux, but it's too nice!!! [WAS: weird Windows 2000/XP bug]

2001-11-01 Thread Helge Kruse
vember 2001 19:16 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [Cooker] Nothing about Linux, but it's too nice!!! [WAS: weird > Windows 2000/XP bug] > > > I know it's not a Cooker-subject, but it's too comic and I want > you to smile > with me ;o))) > Have a nice

[Cooker] Nothing about Linux, but it's too nice!!! [WAS: weird Windows 2000/XP bug]

2001-11-01 Thread Claudio
I know it's not a Cooker-subject, but it's too comic and I want you to smile with me ;o))) Have a nice weekend! Claudio Original Message Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2001 17:19:47 +0200 From: Teodor Cimpoesu To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: weird Windows 2000/XP bug Some