On Fri, Dec 28, 2001 at 03:58:38PM +1100, Jeff Waugh wrote:
> Anyway, that's how I got myself into the pickle. Not sure as to whether the
> box is back up or booted yet, too much festivity going on between times.
strings /lib/ld-2.2.4 | grep "kernel too old"
FATAL: kernel too old
So you stuff
> Anyway, that's how I got myself into the pickle. Not sure as to whether the
> box is back up or booted yet, too much festivity going on between times.
Hahaha:
$ telnet x.x.x.x
Trying x.x.x.x...
Connected to x.x.x.x.
Escape character is '^]'.
FATAL: kernel too old
Connection closed by foreign
> That probably won't work since all that does is get init to run
> /sbin/shutdown -t1 -a -r now ie forking a new process.
So annoying! :) Every way I could think of killing off a system involves
actually running something.
> So who wins the prize Jeff?
No one, my telnet session didn't last.
> .. i don't get it.
>
> kill is built into bash..
>
> "kill -INT 1" should be equivalent to ctrl-alt-del on the console, and
> shouldn't actually need to spawn another process.
Tried that, never worked.
> (and whats this "kernel is too old" huff?)
Well, there's the full spiel... :)
There'
On Fri, Dec 28, 2001 at 03:45:53PM +1100, Angus Lees wrote:
> kill is built into bash..
>
> "kill -INT 1" should be equivalent to ctrl-alt-del on the console, and
> shouldn't actually need to spawn another process.
>
That probably won't work since all that does is get init to run
/sbin/shutdown
> On Sun, 23 Dec 2001, Jeff Waugh wrote:
>
> > Holy cow! Krazy Sunday Linux Challenge!
> >
> > Your challenge, should you choose to accept it is:
> >
> > Reboot a linux-mipsel machine using only... a running root bash process.
> >
> > You may not execute any program [1], you may not use the swit
