On Wednesday 06 October 2004 09:04, freebsd wrote: > I'm suspicious someone was trying to probe or dos this server, but if > there is some other possible explanation, and since I have only seen > this on a 5.3 BETA box I thought I would post it here. It looks to > me like someone was trying to do a small dos attack perhaps? > > Today I had these messages in dmesg.today: > > kern.maxfiles limit exceeded by uid 70, please see tuning(7). > kern.maxfiles limit exceeded by uid 88, please see tuning(7). ^^^ > > The offending processes are: > # ps 88 > PID TT STAT TIME COMMAND > 88 ?? IL 0:00.00 [nfsiod 3] > # ps 70 > PID TT STAT TIME COMMAND > 70 ?? WL 0:08.60 [swi3: cambio] You shouldn't be looking at process IDs, but you should be looking at User IDs. Users 70 and 88 are (or at least should be) for PostgreSQL and MySQL. A. -- Andy Fawcett | andy_at_athame.co.uk | tap_at_kde.org "In an open world without walls and fences, | tap_at_lspace.org we wouldn't need Windows and Gates." -- anon | tap_at_fruitsalad.orgReceived on Wed Oct 06 2004 - 04:43:41 UTC
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