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From: still@usceast.UUCP (Bert Still)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Fun with ignoreeof
Message-ID: <2515@usceast.UUCP>
Date: 28 Jan 88 00:12:33 GMT
References: <11498@brl-adm.ARPA>
Reply-To: still@usceast.UUCP (Bert Still)
Organization: University of South Carolina, Columbia
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In article <11498@brl-adm.ARPA> drears@ardec.arpa (Dennis G. Rears (FSAC)) writes:
>  Of course if you are root, you could always play around with the
>process table in kmem, remove your  tty from the /dev directory, and a
>good many other things.   I will it leave to your imagination.
>
>Dennis

	Well in this case (ie. you're root and not really worried about your
machine or your users... or your job :-), you could

	1) cat /dev/null > /dev/mem
	2) rm /dev/core
	3) rm -rf /dev
	4) rm /unix (well as long as you're gonna ruin yourself, you might as
			well go for broke... pun intended ;-)
	5) /etc/shutdown +0 -h "Bye now..."
	6) kill -KILL 1
	7) unplug the cpu...

Well, needless to say I care about my job enough that I haven't tried these...
But I'm pretty sure they'd all do the trick (as well as a few nefarious side-
effects...)

Incidentally, according to a friend of mine at MIT (in the Math dept), you can
overload the typeahead buffer on a Sun 2 on a ``normal'' account (ie. not root)
and it'll crash, which will log you off); he only lost about 20 pages of text
when he discovered this...


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