defend from -> :() { :&:; } ;:

[Jonathan Chen]

On Sun, Oct 21, 2007 at 12:10:02PM -0700, Danielisz Laszlo wrote:
> Please do not try to execute this: :() { :&:; } ;: on your BSD machine.
> I ask all who already tried it how to defend from this?

That's just a fork bomb. Try looking at tuning(7) and login.conf(5) to
reduce the maxproc limit for users.
-- 
Jonathan Chen <jonc at chen.org.nz>
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