Re: easy way to crash freebsd

2001-03-05 Thread diman
Hello, I found a bit more ecsotic way to do this: - put your fdd to a piece of paper to make it roll a bit slower - mount floppy and initiate some write operation - regulating the preassure to the device you can achive the effect (I/O err., autom. reboot in progress :P) On Fri, 2 Mar

Re: easy way to crash freebsd

2001-03-05 Thread mouss
At 15:25 02/03/01 -0800, Alfred Perlstein wrote: On Fri, 2 Mar 2001, Dan Phoenix wrote: symbolic link /etc/resolv.conf to a non-existant filethrow a bunch of connections at it and watch it reboot. * Dan Phoenix [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010302 15:24] wrote: People asking me how

Re: easy way to crash freebsd

2001-03-03 Thread Wes Peters
Alfred Perlstein wrote: On Fri, 2 Mar 2001, Dan Phoenix wrote: symbolic link /etc/resolv.conf to a non-existant filethrow a bunch of connections at it and watch it reboot. * Dan Phoenix [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010302 15:24] wrote: People asking me how this could be used as a

Re: easy way to crash freebsd

2001-03-03 Thread James Howard
On Sat, 3 Mar 2001, Wes Peters wrote: You don't even have to overwrite it some times. Accessing word-size-only registers in memory a byte at a time can cause a bus error and panic... I have never worked with FreeBSD at this low a level. How does one do this and why? :) Jamie To

Re: easy way to crash freebsd

2001-03-03 Thread Chris Costello
On Friday, March 02, 2001, Dan Phoenix wrote: People asking me how this could be used as a local user. Well i guess if you wanted to you could find something root runs that writes to /tmp then umask resolv.conf and echo "" resolv.conf Could you expand on this, please? What does finding

Re: easy way to crash freebsd

2001-03-03 Thread Michael C . Wu
On Sat, Mar 03, 2001 at 01:05:24PM -0500, James Howard scribbled: | On Sat, 3 Mar 2001, Wes Peters wrote: | | You don't even have to overwrite it some times. Accessing word-size-only | registers in memory a byte at a time can cause a bus error and panic... | | I have never worked with

Re: easy way to crash freebsd

2001-03-03 Thread Wes Peters
James Howard wrote: On Sat, 3 Mar 2001, Wes Peters wrote: You don't even have to overwrite it some times. Accessing word-size-only registers in memory a byte at a time can cause a bus error and panic... I have never worked with FreeBSD at this low a level. How does one do this and

Re: easy way to crash freebsd

2001-03-03 Thread Dan Phoenix
On Sat, 3 Mar 2001, Chris Costello wrote: Date: Sat, 03 Mar 2001 12:24:19 -0600 From: Chris Costello [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Dan Phoenix [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: easy way to crash freebsd On Friday, March 02, 2001, Dan Phoenix wrote: People asking me how

easy way to crash freebsd

2001-03-02 Thread Dan Phoenix
symbolic link /etc/resolv.conf to a non-existant filethrow a bunch of connections at it and watch it reboot. -- Dan +--+ | BRAVENET WEB SERVICES | | [EMAIL PROTECTED]|

Re: easy way to crash freebsd

2001-03-02 Thread Dan Phoenix
enix wrote: Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2001 15:15:36 -0800 (PST) From: Dan Phoenix [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: easy way to crash freebsd symbolic link /etc/resolv.conf to a non-existant filethrow a bunch of connections at it and watch it reboot.

Re: easy way to crash freebsd

2001-03-02 Thread Dan Debertin
Unable to replicate. Opened up 1,000 connections to port 22 with /etc/resolv.conf symlinked to /etc/foo. FreeBSD-4.1.1-RELEASE. Have fun, Dan Debertin -- ++ Unix is the worst operating system, except for all others. ++ Dan Debertin ++ Senior Systems Administrator ++ Bitstream Underground, LLC

Re: easy way to crash freebsd

2001-03-02 Thread Alfred Perlstein
On Fri, 2 Mar 2001, Dan Phoenix wrote: symbolic link /etc/resolv.conf to a non-existant filethrow a bunch of connections at it and watch it reboot. * Dan Phoenix [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010302 15:24] wrote: People asking me how this could be used as a local user. Well i guess if you

Re: easy way to crash freebsd

2001-03-02 Thread Dan Phoenix
ECTED]" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: easy way to crash freebsd Unable to replicate. Opened up 1,000 connections to port 22 with /etc/resolv.conf symlinked to /etc/foo. FreeBSD-4.1.1-RELEASE. Have fun, Dan Debertin -- ++ Unix is the worst operating system, except for all others. ++ Da

Re: easy way to crash freebsd

2001-03-02 Thread Dan Phoenix
lolya that would definately be a killer :) On Fri, 2 Mar 2001, Alfred Perlstein wrote: Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2001 15:25:53 -0800 From: Alfred Perlstein [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Dan Phoenix [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: easy way to crash freebsd On Fri, 2 Mar 2001