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From: rodney@tyrell.gtc.de (Rodney Volz)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin
Subject: Re: How do you make your UNIX crash ???
Message-ID: <7959@tyrell.gtc.de>
Date: 14 Mar 91 18:07:52 GMT
References: <690@tndsyd.oz.au> <513@bria> <1991Mar12.132003.27383@cs.widener.edu>
Organization: Tyrell, Stuttgart (FRG)
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In article <1991Mar12.132003.27383@cs.widener.edu> brendan@cs.widener.edu (Brendan Kehoe) writes:
>
>In <513@bria>, uunet!bria!mike writes:
>>
>>	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.

Right. You don't even need C-programs to make the shoebox woe.

$ cat /etc/termcap > /dev/kmem

      :-)

-Rod
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