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From: lisbon@vpnet.chi.il.us (Gerry Swetsky)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin
Subject: Re: How do you make your UNIX crash ???
Keywords: panic that kernel
Message-ID: <1991Mar15.230055.2377@vpnet.chi.il.us>
Date: 15 Mar 91 23:00:55 GMT
References: <690@tndsyd.oz.au> <1768@eru.mt.luth.se> <668821542.3830@mindcraft.com>
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In article <668821542.3830@mindcraft.com> ronnie@mindcraft.com (Ronnie Kon) writes:
>May I suggest that posting ways of crashing machines may not be the best of
>ideas?

    Nah, that's okay, Ronnie.  We're just compiling names of the idea
    posters here in case any one of them ever applies for a shell
    account on vpnet.  :-)

    There's an ultra nasty way to bring Unix to a halt with a three
    line shell script.  Dennis Ritchie wrote about in an article on
    Unix security some years back.  How is it done?  Let me on your
    system - I'll demonstrate!  Meanwhile, keep your cutsie memory
    constipating programs on your own systems and off mine.

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