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From: brendan@cs.widener.edu (Brendan Kehoe)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin
Subject: Re: How do you make your UNIX crash ???
Message-ID: <1991Mar12.132003.27383@cs.widener.edu>
Date: 12 Mar 91 13:20:03 GMT
References: <690@tndsyd.oz.au> <513@bria>
Organization: Widener CS Dept
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In <513@bria>, uunet!bria!mike writes:
>In an article, tndsyd.oz.au!berny (Berny Goodheart) writes:
>>I am interested in finding out known ways to make your version of UNIX
>>crash.
>	if ( (fd = open("/dev/kmem",O_RDWR)) == -1 )

   If your sysadmin (much less the vendor itself) left /dev/kmem world
   WRITABLE, they're begging for this kind of thing. Readable, possibly;
   writable, c'mon.
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     Brendan Kehoe - Widener Sun Network Manager - brendan@cs.widener.edu
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