From: Luca Berra (blucacomedia.it)
Date: Tue Feb 17 2004 - 02:52:05 CST

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On Mon, Feb 16, 2004 at 02:50:17PM -0700, Dan Woods wrote:
>I get the followinf type of erros in my logs...
>
>Feb 16 14:20:33 www kernel: grsec: From 192.168.1.99: attempted resource
>overstep by requesting 3634159404 for RLIMIT_FSIZE against limit 10240000
>by (postdrop:18188)
>uid/euid:0/0 gid/egid:0/106, parent (sendmail:18187) uid/euid:0/0 gid/egid:0/12
>
>where 1.99 is my windows PC, and Postfix is on a Mandrake 9.2 system with
>Postfix 2.0.13 (both recently upgraded). My server is on 1.100 and both
>are behind my Linksys router/firewall.
>
>I have also seen these RLIMIT_FSIZE errors with the Postfix cleanup script.
>What could be causing these errors ?
>
it is a bug in mandrake kernel-secure package (actually a grsecurity
bug).
It was discussed here already.
please fill a bug on the kernel-secure package on http://bugs.mandrakelinux.com/ and cc me

regards,
L.
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