Category Archives: linux

CPU Time Limits

Posted on January 27, 2009 by independence

Blinkenshell has for a long time employed CPU time limits via ulimit. The limit is currently set so that no process can use more than 60 minutes of CPU time, or it will be killed. This is ofcourse to stop … Continue reading →

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Kernel upgrade

Posted on January 9, 2009 by independence

The kernel upgrade earlier today worked out pretty well, better than expected I have to say. So far things seems to be working very well. Bitlbeed now listens on 192.168.1.12 (titan) instead of 127.0.0.1 which was not really planned, and … Continue reading →

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Linux Local Root Exploit

Posted on February 11, 2008 by independence

There was news about a Local Root Exploit for Linux 2.6 on Slashdot yesterday. It’s pretty serious, and it affects most of the recent 2.6 kernels from what I can gather, up to kernel 2.6.24.2 which is patched against this … Continue reading →

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Snoopy, system reboot

Posted on October 10, 2007 by independence

Today I was trying to update a program called snoopy logger, which is a program to log all executed commands on a system. It does this by wrapping the function execve(), and it get’s called every time a program is … Continue reading →

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