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Re: Problem with red hat 6.1
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (wall)
Fri Dec 1 10:21:12 2000
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Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2000 09:47:04 -0700
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Why did I receive this?
nayakvinod wrote:
> I found a problem, nay a very serious bug in red hat 6.1(kernel
> 2.2.12). I login as an ordinary user and did as follows( in fact I
> wrote a faulty shell program and put it in a directory in PATH): $
> mkdir bin$ cat >bin/hello hello^D$ chmod 0755 bin/hello$ hello This
> system crashed after giving messages like: syslog: Out of
> memory............... init : out of memory First I suspected that the
> problem is in kernel2.2.12. But when I booted RED hat 6.2 with this
> kernel and run the same culprit shell prog, the process terminated
> with the messge:bash: Out of memory! which it should
> do.
> Vinod Nayak
-- Tim L Wallace
Spectral Research & Technology Incorporated
5760 River Road, Nashville, TN 37209
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Phone 615-876-6853 Fax 615-356-9125
Mailing address: P.O.B. 200, Whites Creek, TN 37189
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Why did I receive this?
<p>nayakvinod wrote:
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<font size=-1>I found a problem,
nay a very serious bug in red hat 6.1(kernel 2.2.12).</font> <font size=-1>I
login as an ordinary user and did as follows( in fact I wrote a faulty
shell program and put it in a directory in PATH):</font> <font size=-1>$
mkdir bin$ cat >bin/hello hello^D$ chmod 0755 bin/hello$ hello</font> <font size=-1>This
system crashed after giving messages like:</font> <font size=-1> syslog:
Out of memory...............</font> <font size=-1>init : out of memory</font>
<font size=-1>First I suspected that the problem is in kernel2.2.12. But
when I booted RED hat 6.2 with this kernel and run the same
culprit shell prog, the process terminated with the messge:bash: Out of
memory! which it should do.
Vinod Nayak</font></blockquote>
<p><br>-- Tim L Wallace
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