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From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2003 12:52:19 +0000
Subject: Re: a nice way to reboot :-)
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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 :-)
|>=20
|> > root can crash
|> > the system any way they want. =20
|>=20
|> 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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