From: m_d@pacbell.net (Michael Davidson)
Subject: [TUHS] hello, world
Date: Mon, 26 Dec 2011 13:28:43 -0800 (PST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1324934923.37156.YahooMailClassic@web82402.mail.mud.yahoo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20111226211145.GA1335@minnie.tuhs.org>
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--- On Mon, 12/26/11, Warren Toomey <wkt at tuhs.org> wrote:
A question though: what command would "bring the system down"?
Well, if you are logged in as root the possibilities are almost endless, the classic one being:
# rm -rf *
run from the root directory. Strictly speaking, of course, that doesn't "bring the system down" but there really isn't much that you can do with the system after running it ...
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Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-12-25 13:10 Norman Wilson
2011-12-26 21:11 ` Warren Toomey
2011-12-26 21:15 ` Wilko Bulte
2011-12-26 21:20 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2011-12-26 21:53 ` Armando Stettner
2011-12-26 22:13 ` Michael Davidson
2011-12-26 21:28 ` A. P. Garcia
2011-12-27 1:08 ` A. P. Garcia
2011-12-26 21:28 ` Michael Davidson [this message]
2011-12-28 0:13 ` Sven Mascheck
2011-12-28 0:20 ` Wilko Bulte
2011-12-28 7:34 ` Warren Toomey
2011-12-28 10:16 ` Ori Idan
2011-12-27 6:11 ` Adam
2012-01-04 3:37 ` Cyrille Lefevre
[not found] ` <Pine.BSI.4.64.1112271711290.603@dave.horsfall.org>
2011-12-27 18:01 ` Tim Newsham
2011-12-28 0:53 ` Corey Lindsly
2011-12-28 10:54 ` asbesto
2011-12-28 18:32 ` John Cowan
[not found] <mailman.1.1325037601.24307.tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org>
2011-12-28 20:56 ` David Barto
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