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. -- Andreas Schwab, SuSE Labs, schwab@suse.de SuSE Linux AG, Deutschherrnstr. 15-19, D-90429 Nürnberg Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different." - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ia64" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.htmlReceived on Thu Jul 24 08:58:48 2003
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