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- Path: sparky!uunet!mcsun!uknet!stl!row
- From: row@bnr.co.uk (Reuben Wells)
- Newsgroups: alt.hackers
- Subject: Re: My First Post.
- Message-ID: <1992Aug26.120523.16427@bnr.co.uk>
- Date: 26 Aug 92 12:05:23 GMT
- References: <1992Aug25.211008.6234@news.uiowa.edu>
- Sender: daemon@bnr.co.uk
- Reply-To: row@bnr.co.uk (Reuben Wells)
- Organization: BNR Europe Limited, London Road, Harlow, Essex, GB
- Lines: 23
- Approved: row
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- >Ob"Hack": Accidentally creating a runaway process that forks itself to death,
- > running as root, and with real time priority, on an HP 9000/710. I
- > was lucky they were created and died so fast the process table
- > filled up and made the program abort so I didn't have to reboot the
- > machine, but it sure locked it up solid for a few minutes!
- >
-
- Write a shell script called 'all' that does an rsh on every machine on the
- network passing its parameters to the rsh command. Then after trying
- the really boring and naff stuff like 'all play sheep' try something like
- 'all all all' ...
-
- I did not try this myself but had a friend that did on about 30 machines,
- not only did he have to reboot *every* single machine once some of them
- required several reboots ! It was quite amusing, he hadn't really thought
- about what he was doing and didn't expect the network to stop, it was quite
- pretty though looking at all the lights on the transceivers located around
- the room :-) Its not surprising when you realise that it the machines were
- trying to start around 27,000 processes between them !
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-
- Reuben O. Wells - BNR Europe Ltd - (+44) 279 403704
-