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From: berggren@eecs.cs.pdx.edu (Eric Berggren)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin
Subject: Re: How do you make your UNIX crash ???
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Date: 18 Mar 91 07:25:09 GMT
Article-I.D.: pdxgate.1994
References: <690@tndsyd.oz.au> <513@bria> <1991Mar12.132003.27383@cs.widener.edu> <7959@tyrell.gtc.de> <1991Mar16.195916.26282@infoac.rmi.de> <1991Mar18.052757.24460@athena.mit.edu>
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jik@athena.mit.edu (Jonathan I. Kamens) writes:

>In article <1991Mar16.195916.26282@infoac.rmi.de>, siebeck@infoac.rmi.de (Wolfgang Siebeck ) writes:
>|> what about
>|> 
>|> # rm -f /dev/kmem

>  All of the other suggestions which discussed writing to /dev/kmem assume
>that the device /dev/kmem is world-writeable.

>  Your suggestion assumes that the directory /dev is world-writeable, which is
>a completely different thing.

  Well, shoot... go for the whole filesystem! 

rm -f /dev/[Place YOUR disk driver here!]

-e.b.

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