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From: schwartz@gondor.psu.edu (Scott E. Schwartz)
Newsgroups: comp.unix
Subject: Re: hash in /bin/sh
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Date: Fri, 6-Nov-87 16:48:48 EST
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In article <2269@mcdchg.UUCP> stpeters@steinmetz.UUCP (Dick St.Peters) writes:
>My ls doesn't do
>anything except warn people not to put . first in their path and
>record who tripped my trap.
>
>It's been interesting watching who I catch and how they react.  (Every
>once in awhile, I catch myself when I do an rsh.  Most embarrassing.)

I once tried this.  When my friends tripped across it they reacted like
this:

	while (1)
		ls
	end

and ran it in the background.  I had things set up to mail me the 
notification of who I'd tripped.  The above loop made sendmail so
upset that the machine crashed.  (at least the machine crashed a
few minutes afterwards... causality was never really established
and I never bothered to reproduce the crash.)


-- Scott Schwartz            schwartz@gondor.psu.edu