[PLUG] Baby killing Linux

[Linux.Administrator at odot.state.or.us]

Can you access the box via the network? I've had the screen lock up on me
before, but SSH into it and killing the process usually brings it back.

-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Montagne [mailto:montagne at boora.com] 
Sent: Thursday, June 19, 2003 1:23 PM
To: plug at lists.pdxlinux.org
Subject: [PLUG] Baby killing Linux


This is a mystery.  My two year old can sit down and completely lock up
my Linux box with a few keystrokes.  I'm assured she is only there for a
minute and this is probably true.  When I got home, there was an xterm
up with the string "  n   " on it.  Everything else was locked up.  No
keyboard, no mouse, no sshing in from a different machine, nothing.
Only option was a reboot.  Not good after my preaching about power,
reliability, and robustness.

So, what did she do?  If you had a few seconds to completely disable a
Linux system how would you do it?  Probably only with keystrokes and
not lgged in as root.  This has happened several times.


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  Michael Montagne  http://www.themontagnes.com  503.226.1575 
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