Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 23 Jul 1996 16:06:27 +0800 (WST) | From | Michael Slater <> | Subject | Re: Dumping /dev/zero to the console |
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On Fri, 19 Jul 1996, Phillip wrote:
> On Thu, 18 Jul 1996, Paul Gortmaker wrote: > > > > > Here is a neat trick to make your linux box essentially unusable: > > > > On linux console, even as a non-priv user, do a: > > > > % dd if=/dev/zero bs=1024k > > > > Now switch to another console (or even X) and try to do anything useful > > and see how the box behaves. Same result with v1.2.13 and v2.0.7 kernel. > > > > Paul. > > > > > > > > Uh, I just tried it and NOTHING special happened....
Another user on this machine did it, and it essentially crashed the machine. I was forced to make dd executable only by root.
Michael Slater aonline@access.tnet.com.au
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