From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <3EE012E3.80108@ameritech.net> From: northern snowfall User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; SunOS sun4u; en-US; rv:0.9.4.1) Gecko/20020518 Netscape6/6.2.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] Re: some #s References: <3EE01177.1020503@ameritech.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Thu, 5 Jun 2003 23:04:51 -0500 Topicbox-Message-UUID: c5f3ac02-eacb-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 > > >> Also, when you reboot your machine, with ctl-alt-del, factotum's pages >> are still sitting in memory somewhere. Someone can load their own >> kernel >> and look at the data. I should also change ctl-alt-del to zero out >> process >> memory before bringing the system down. Then there are still crashes... > Oh, I forgot to mention. Another thing is stale cluster connection hijacking. Just as in NFS, this tends to be a problem in cluster situations. Rebooting does a body good for this kind of issue, but, it sure as hell isn't the best answer. The protocols should be more wary, IM(not-so-humble)O. Don http://deadchildren.org/~north_