Funny thing is,
this perl (yeah yeah that's the key ain't it) program looks like the one
that usually runs on the CE? Or am i just confused again?
JT
Steve Traylen wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 08, 2006 at 04:44:28PM +0000 or thereabouts, David McBride wrote:
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>>On Wed, 2006-02-08 at 16:16 +0000, David McBride wrote:
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>>>This is in effect a denial-of-service. It appears to be an accidental,
>>>rather than a deliberate one, which is why this isn't going to the
>>>security incidents list.
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>>I've decided that, accidental or not, this should be considered as a
>>security incident.
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> David,
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> I disagree with you again.
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> This is just equivalent to a user submitting a job that does not
> end when he expects it to. This happens all the time on farms and
> is exactly why jobs are killed on a max wallimit.
>
> At any one time there always hung jobs somewhere on our farm, it is
> part of life.
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> Yes it is something you should monitor and if a user persists to
> do then you have strong words with them but it is not security
> incident.
>
> Steve
>
>
>>Those of you who are CSIRTS, expect an email shortly.
>>
>>David
>>--
>>David McBride <[log in to unmask]>
>>Department of Computing, Imperial College, London
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