[PLUG] Baby killing Linux
Shahms King
shahms at shahms.com
Thu Jun 19 13:45:02 UTC 2003
Said he couldn't ssh into it, but I'd like to know if it's ping-able or
not. The best way I know of to quickly "hang" a Linux box is to
convince the X server to consume all of your available resources (or, at
the very least, all of the CPU for a good long while). Sadly, this
isn't always difficult to do on accident, but I seem to have a good deal
of trouble doing it on purpose ;-)
On Thu, 2003-06-19 at 13:29, Linux.Administrator at odot.state.or.us wrote:
> 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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Shahms King <shahms at shahms.com>
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