From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: a nice way to reboot :-)
Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2003 12:52:19 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <marc-linux-ia64-105905152832116@msgid-missing> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <marc-linux-ia64-105887789030732@msgid-missing>
Bruno Cornec <Bruno.Cornec@hp.com> writes:
|> I just wonder if this could be used as a DOS from outside the system. In
|> which case, it would be a Bad Thing (tm :-)
|>
|> > root can crash
|> > the system any way they want.
|>
|> Yes, that's true. But it just more surprising when you think you just
|> pass a normal command ;-)
If you are already root then shutdown -h is just as effective.
Andreas.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-07-24 12:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-07-22 12:32 a nice way to reboot :-) Bruno Cornec
2003-07-22 13:05 ` Grant Grundler
2003-07-22 13:31 ` Bruno Cornec
2003-07-22 14:33 ` Bjorn Helgaas
2003-07-22 15:44 ` digiovanni, lucio
2003-07-23 3:50 ` Matthew Wilcox
2003-07-24 12:30 ` Bruno Cornec
2003-07-24 12:52 ` Andreas Schwab [this message]
2003-07-24 12:55 ` Matthew Wilcox
2003-07-24 13:53 ` Van Maren, Kevin
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