similar to: fork bomb?

Dear All, I'm having an intermittent problem, with dovecot slowing to a crawl. Restarting dovecot fixes the problem. Looking at the maillog, I see loads of these errors.... dovecot: pipe() failed: Too many open files dovecot: Temporary failure in creating login processes, slowing down for now dovecot: Created login processes successfully, unstalling looking at the processes, I can see

For some reason, my system (64-bit, CentOS 5.8) has started to have a strange problem: dbus-daemon fork() bombing, typically overnight. The machine has been fine for months and months. What could cause this? This is my home desktop (it is also a server on my lan: dhcp, ldap, dns, web, etc.). -- Robert Heller -- 978-544-6933 / heller at deepsoft.com Deepwoods Software --

https://bugzilla.mindrot.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3057 Bug ID: 3057 Summary: Fork-bomb when misconfiguring a host to ProxyJump onto itself Product: Portable OpenSSH Version: 7.9p1 Hardware: Other OS: Linux Status: NEW Severity: enhancement Priority: P5 Component: ssh

I tried to run this: :(){ :&:;};: as a non-root user in my CentOS4 and it bring down my box to its knees. Take care. str

Hi, My machine just bombed when I did the following stupid command. :(){:|:};: Zsh chewed up everything on the machine... I ran it knowing I'd probably have to reboot. But, I hardly expected it to panic. Or, was that normal? Anyway, the following is some detail... Please mail me if there is more I'm ment to do. Thanks in advance :) ultraviolet@tulip:~ %> uname -a FreeBSD

I have been running Dovecot 1.2.5 since Sept 14. Beginning at about 03:28 on Sept 21 for no apparent (to me) reason and continuing through the present, I am seeing log messages like the following and am experiencing delays logging in. Sep 22 19:07:15 sbh16 dovecot: dovecot: Temporary failure in creating login processes, slowing down for now Sep 22 19:07:15 sbh16 dovecot: pop3-login: Fatal:

Hi again, I was reading from the net http://www.kriptopolis.org/node/4067 about a forkbomb and ran it from a root console in a non-critical machine running CentOS4.4 and the serevr goes down... the command I ran was :(){ :|:& };: Please, does anyone knows how to aboid this on CentOS? regards, Israel

Hi all, We updated to 1.1.7 a week or two back from 1.1.6 (both standard atrpms builds). Since doing so, twice now I've seen the imap services accept connections but they hang before the banner is printed (pop seems to be unaffected). I see this in the logs: Dec 23 14:02:15 mail9 dovecot: pipe() failed: Too many open files Dec 23 14:02:15 mail9 dovecot: Temporary failure in creating login

Hi, I keep getting the below error regarding rJava which is required by package xlsx (I have used it in the past to directly import data from Excel 2010). I was on R version 2.15.0 when I was getting this error this morning. So I upgraded to 2.15.1 but still the same problem. I tried unstalling and reinstalling xlsx and even rJava directly from the source as indicated here:

Hi all, I have to implement a Out of Office Tool on our dovecot IMAP Server. Recently I updated dovecot-1.0.7-7.el5 to dovecot-1.1.20-1_98.el5 on our CentOS release 5.6 (Final) box via "yum update" # cat /etc/yum.conf .... [atrpms] name=Fedora Core $releasever - $basearch - ATrpms baseurl=http://dl.atrpms.net/el$releasever-$basearch/atrpms/stable

Getting the followng error when managesieve is enabled. Any other post I've read says this problem is because the service hasn't restarted after upgrade. I've restarted dovecot & postfix many times, reboot machine too. Still get the error. Racking my brains on this!! May 7 13:21:19 drizzle dovecot: dovecot: Created login processes successfully, unstalling May 7 13:21:20 drizzle

This is a partial fix for https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=526717 Rich. -- Richard Jones, Emerging Technologies, Red Hat http://et.redhat.com/~rjones libguestfs lets you edit virtual machines. Supports shell scripting, bindings from many languages. http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/libguestfs/ See what it can do: http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/libguestfs/recipes.html -------------- next

I submitted a bug to the tracker *(*bug<http://bugs.digium.com/view.php?id=6947>) regarding the 256 character limit when copying a voicemail to a list of mail boxes. The bug was closed with this note: "Fixed in 1.2 branch, merged to trunk." Could someone explain to me what that means... in English? I searched the release notes of the newest asterisk version to see if this bug

On 06-Nov-97 maechler@stat.math.ethz.ch wrote: >I investigated some more: > R_VISIBLE is set to 0 ``R_Visible = 0;'' > also in other places in eval.c : > > line C function > > 344: do_if > 436: do_for > 480: do_while > 515: do_repeat > 720: \ > 727: > do_set > 738: / > ^^^ >(line

Doing some debugging of my kernel build with ext3 and noticed something interesting. At the bottom of the rootflags options processing loop there is a return failure if there was an option that ext3 did not know about. Should this be the behaviour? Would it not be better to ignore options not recognized? Surely, some day, some other filesystem is going to want to use rootflags to have one of

I''ve searched and search, tried a number of things like unstalling sqlite3 and reinstalling. Reinstalling Rails, building sqlite3 from source, etc. Nothing seems to work. When I try to start up my server I get the following: MacBook-Pro:splash Ross$ rails server /Volumes/Macintosh HD/Users/Ross/rails_projects/splash/json/ruby/1.9.1/gems/sqlite3-1.3.3/lib/sqlite3.rb:6:in

I recently had some scary experience with the Inbox being stored in the default /var/mail dir, and I believe it would be a better idea to keep the Inbox next to any other mail in the users $HOME. mail_location = mbox:~/.mail:INBOX=~/.mail/INBOX This is what I used for a quick test, and actually would love to use in production soon. Based on the test, it just does exactly what I want. :)

Hi, Running OS: CentOS 5.3 (2.6.18-128.2.1.el5) 1. My Linux distribution comes with Dovecot 1.0.7. After trying to make it running, I encoutnered many problems. So I decided to upgrade to 1.2.1. When running dovecot -r from CLI, it returns with version 1.2.1. But at the top of the log file it says: Info: Dovecot v1.0.7 starting up So I am not sure which version I am running. That's the

Good evening, folks, Well, here at least. ;) I recently found out by accident about support for gzip compressed mbox files. While this is great for archives to keep wasting of space down to a minimum, unfortunately it is read only -- no support for rw access. Is implementing write access by any chance planned for future releases? Now for the spoiler. :) I mentioned, I found out about this

Hi I'm working on installing R and Rcmdr on a Mac running Leopard. I've had it running in the past and had to reinstall 11X iwhen putting some notes together for students. To get screen shots I reinstalled 11X without unstalling it first. Having loaded the additional packages with Rcmdr, when I try to open Rcmdr I now get the following error messages: Error: .onload failed in