How to destroy your Linux box.

[X_console]

Let's get some ideas here on how to destroy our Linux boxes in a fun way.

First, ask someone to pick a number from 5 to 10. Then as root, run the command rm -rf /. Wait for n number of seconds, where n is the number someone picked for you. Quickly press Ctrl-C when the number of seconds is up, and see what's left of your system.

This is a great thing to try out right before re-installing your box. Of course if you want to have your boot disk handy...

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Fear is the path to the dark side.
Fear leads to anger, anger leads to hate.
Hate, leads to suffering.
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[Sensei]

uh.....X what do you think i did when i purposely messed up my original linux box? http://www.linuxnewbie.org/ubb/smile.gif

i agree rm -r / then conrtol+c midway through heehee!

you might as well re-install after this because its practically impossible to repair http://www.linuxnewbie.org/ubb/smile.gif.

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[X_console]

Hehehehe. It's too bad I forgot to do these things before I reinstalled Linux. http://www.linuxnewbie.org/ubb/smile.gif What else is there? Oooh! How about say, logging in and then just shutting off the main power without properly shutting Linux down? Do this 10 times in a row, and let us know what happens! Remember now, do this only if you want to screw up your system!

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Fear is the path to the dark side.
Fear leads to anger, anger leads to hate.
Hate, leads to suffering.
-- Yoda
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[takshaka]

You haven't really lived until you've recovered vital data from an unmountable partition with debugfs http://www.linuxnewbie.org/ubb/smile.gif

All hail tomsrtbt.

(sorry, but I don't have suggestions for intentionally trashingan ext2 filesystem--that's bad karma http://www.linuxnewbie.org/ubb/smile.gif )

[cAspEr]

I destroyed my first computer in a weird way. I was taking it to a friend's house and had set it on the roof of my mom's car. Somehow, we forgot it was up there, and it didn't fly off until we got on the highway. (It wasn't a linux box, but it's still an unusual way to trash your computer).

[Hooloovoo]

Another one:
dd if=/dev/random of=/dev/hda
What would happen if you were to do:
dd if=/dev/random of=/dev/eth0 (or some network device)?

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[X_console]

I just did mine the classic way a couple of days ago. I was extremely bored okay? So I did an rm -rf / on Slack just to see what would happen. I stopped halfway through and tried to login as a different user but apparantly the utmp was gone and I was getting nice errors. I finally just let rm run loose until I got another weird error. Either way, it was sorta fun.

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Fear is the path to the dark side.
Fear leads to anger, anger leads to hate.
Hate, leads to suffering.
-- Yoda
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[Craig McPherson]

The real question, what do you do once rm has been deleted? hehe

[X_console]

Actually I started getting errors right before the system went down. I think it didn't delete everything, but I think it deleted some libraries that needed to keep the system running or something. Whatever it was, I couldn't do any of the commands anymore. http://www.linuxnewbie.org/ubb/smile.gif Couldn't even log out. Hehehe.

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Fear is the path to the dark side.
Fear leads to anger, anger leads to hate.
Hate, leads to suffering.
-- Yoda
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[LightningCrash]

I met a guy who jinxed all computers he used. He has a few linux boxes networked in his house, and he was showing me a text he had received(displaying it in pico). He accidentally hit some odd keys (in his attempt to ^X), and suddenly, his system crashed and lapsed into an unbootable state(LILO was gone from the master boot record, as well). He had it up and running again the next day, and he was loading some program (*****X, I think), then he tried to use it, and boom....complete meltdown. He got very tired of this and installed Windows98 on the system. He was editing a .dat file for The Palace Server when his active windows suddenly went blank, for lack of a better word. He restarted, to find he was missing about every possible system DLL that Windows needs to run. I think he just gave the cursed computer away after a while...lol

[Hooloovoo]

1)Log in as root
2)Mount all partitions "rw"
3)Begin an fsck
4)Pull the plug halfway through


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[X_console]

Whoa excellent Hooloovoo!

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Hate, leads to suffering.
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[crazeinc]

I always thought the best way to trash your linux box was to install windows http://www.linuxnewbie.org/ubb/smile.gif ba-dum-ching!

[X_console]

You can fill up your box with the following command:

dd if=/dev/zero of=foo bs=10000

In one minute, the capacity of my hard disk went from 38% to 54%. Cool!

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Hate, leads to suffering.
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[NowhereMan]

Test Celeron 366's at 550. Lots of them, batches of 30 or so. ALl the ones that crash will give you a pretty good ****ed up system http://www.linuxnewbie.org/ubb/smile.gif

Run Wine with programs that dont work, and watch the magic as your box gets frozen... just like windows.. LOL WOW, it really is a windows emulator!!! http://www.linuxnewbie.org/ubb/smile.gif

I must say i screwd my stuff up a bit when i tested lots of celerons and had to many improper shutdowns.

[Hazridi]

I have it. How about this.
$dd if=/dev/random of=/dev/hda

It won't just screw up your linux partition, it'll kill the entire harddrive. ;P

Or for fun,
$dd if=/dev/random of=/proc/kcore

[Speedy]

What would happen if you did rm -rf /dev? Or chmod 000 /

-Speedy

[DenisL]

I did the ol' rm -rf / & and let it go and when I tried to log out it said the following:

"You don't exist, go away"

Laughed my *** off... Anybody want to explain this to me?

[X_console]

My guess is that the utmp or passwd/shadow files were gone, so the system couldn't recognize you. http://www.linuxnewbie.org/ubb/smile.gif

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Fear leads to anger, anger leads to hate.
Hate, leads to suffering.
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[twist]

errrr.. install NT?

[X_console]

Here's how I crashed my Linux box recently. I posted this somewhere else but someone said I should post it here as well. http://www.linuxnewbie.org/ubb/smile.gif

Do a GUI (XDM, KDM, GDM, whatever...) and then check your permissions for /dev/console. If it's crw--w--w-, then this will most probably work. As a normal user, create a symlink to /dev/console, say:

ln -s /dev/console ~/foo

Then:

cat ~/foo

On my box, Linux freezes completely! It responds a little to some random key combinations, but after about 45 minutes, totally dead. On other boxes, the xterm will freeze up, and on others still, the box freezes in 30 min. The problem apparantly lies in the programs GiveConsole and TakeConsole that is run by XDM. On Slackware, these scripts are in /var/X11R6/lib/xdm

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Fear is the path to the Dark Side.
Fear leads to anger, anger leads to hate.
Hate, leads to suffering.
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[MkIII_Supra]

Why would you want to crash your box intentionally? I don't get it?

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The Dragon is swift and powerful. Beware his wrath...

[Chakotay]

well, linux doesn't ever crash, and all those windows users seem to be having so much fun with all those nice blue screens. we just want in on it!

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The Gods have a sense of humour,
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[X_console]

Well it's a fun thing to do. There are so many ways to crash a Windows box it's just no fun anymore. Heck I could crash my Windows box just by staring at it. But Linux ah... of course this is all a fun thing. Like let's say you decide you need to reinstall Linux. Do you really just want to boot that boot disk and then reformat? Course not! You want to mess up every single file in there first and render the darn thing useless!

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Fear leads to anger, anger leads to hate.
Hate, leads to suffering.
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[Kewj0e]

X i have an idea for you... get a nice big magnet .. open up your computer and stick it to your hd.. then try to log in =)

[Coral Sea]

Having played with Linux for a few weeks now, if there's one thing that Windows 98 and NT are better at, it's recovering from hard boots. I find that Linux does not recover very well from hard boots and, in some cases, doesn't recover at all.

I'm going to keep playing, though, because it's obvious that Linux gets better with every release.

[MXR4LIFE]

Is a hard boot the same as a hot boot?
I was taught the term hot boot, was pushing the restart button while it's running. Then there is the "reboot" from console thats the proper way to do Linux. But then there is the case where you loose power or Linux locks up and you have no choice but to. It took me a few weeks to learn that X Windows was usualy the weak link and alt+backspace got me back to console. Anyway this is hard on the Linux file system, anyone know why?

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[This message has been edited by MXR4LIFE (edited 02 October 1999).]

[djv]

And now some haiku...

See the small grey mouse.
It will cease to exist soon.
Shotgun shell ejects.

Look at the P.C.
It is an ugly grey box.
Ammo will improve.

I use Microsoft.
General Protection Fault.
I load my hand gun.

Disk will not eject.
The Macintosh will suffer.
Bottom of the pool.

A.O.L.is bad.
The disks fly into the sky.
Land in the fire place.

Gas versus iMac
Flames rise high into the sky.
Gas has won the fight.

C-4 on G4
C-4 goes boom, Mac crashes.
C-4 is my friend.

Open floppy disk.
Replace disk with sandpaper.
Heads will go away.

Hard drive heads have crashed.
Computer is useless now.
Large truck squashes flat.

Mobster owns P.C.
Crashes when he surfs the web.
Sleeps with the fishes.

Hope you like 'em!

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How get you so big on
food of this kind? Hmmm?
-Yoda

[djv]

Here's a good site that gives a play-by-play of the deaths of 2 Mac Classics... http://home.epix.net/~jpowlus/macintrashin/index.html
They shot, burned, and exploded these computers in the middle of a field, and managed to get some pretty remarkable pictures and videos in the process. Ever seen the moment of impact when a 9mm bulet hits a CRT? Or how about a 8 foot flame shooting out horizontaly from the front of a computer? This site kicks *ss!


http://home.epix.net/~jpowlus/macintrashin/images/frames/038.jpg


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How get you so big on
food of this kind? Hmmm?
-Yoda

[This message has been edited by djv (edited 07 October 1999).]

[Sensei]

actually mxr4 what you are thinking of is a cold boot and a warm boot.

cold boot: turning on the computer / lose power have to re-turn on cpu.

warm boot: reset button

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[MXR4LIFE]

Yep. But what is Coral Sea talking about in post above mine, when saying "hard boot"? My guess is hot boot.

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[king_arther1]

well it's good to see that despite our long and boring hours on our linux boxes some of us still manage to keep their sense of humour!

that was some funny $hit!

rm -r / = ouch!

[guitarman]

Try putting that nasty command in the startup file(s)

[guitarman]

Fool your friends! In X type
xterm -b 1000 -bg red -fg red
In UNIX this will give you a full-screen red xterm window with red letters

[n5rv]

Here's one that I did. As root and in the / directory, I mistyped 'mkdir /~bin' when I meant to type 'mkdir ~/bin'. I then pressed the return key. After seeing my mistake (that a directory called ~bin was now in the / directory), I proceeded to rm -rf ~bin. BIG MISTAKE!! Wiped out my entire /bin directory.

Aint Linux/UNIX great. Oh well, was a good time to rebuild everything anyway....

[bytemare]

I haven't tried it myself, but if you want to thrash your system, I think if you started about 5 of these:

ls -alR / > /dev/null &

let me know how this works, I'm kind of curious http://www.linuxnewbie.org/ubb/wink.gif

[Chakotay]

well, I didn't really trash it, and it wasn't really on purpose either, but I think it belongs here anyway http://www.linuxnewbie.org/ubb/smile.gif

remember your first home-brewed kernel? I'll remember mine, that's for sure. I use a nifty little trick to multi boot my system. I used to have Win2000 installed, removed it, but left its boot manager hanging around. lilo writes the bootsector to c:\boot.lnx, *ahem*, /dos/boot.lnx. /dev/hda1, mounted to /dos, is a FAT32 drive. and conveniently, in my home brewed kernel, I somehow failed to insert vfat, and my network card. **** happens, right? well, thing is, after I booted I was left with no way to mount /dev/hda1 and no access to the network. no sweat. I still had a boot floppy with a stock 2.2.12 kernel. which, by Murphy's almighty will, turned out to be damaged.

and so I had to 'make bzdisk' in order to get access to /dev/hda1 after a reboot, so I could finally truly insert my new first home brewed kernel. to a more experienced user these are probalby quite trivial problems (right?), but I almost **** in my pants when my boot floppy turned out to be bad, until I started thinking and remembered the possibilities of 'make bzdisk' http://www.linuxnewbie.org/ubb/smile.gif

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So be sure you don't lose yours.

[NumberOneSlacker]

That's one thing I like about linux that one should be careful about. Unlike windows, which if you want to delete something you have to go through some 50 step process of taking it to the recycle bin and deleting it. No. In linux if you're logged on as root and do so much as think the rm command, you're file's gone. Just like that.

[knute]

This isn't as drastic as the methods you are proposing, but edit the /etc/inittab file...
Change the default runlevel to either 6 or 0....
I was just looking at my inittab and it said not to do it. http://www.linuxnewbie.org/ubb/biggrin.gif Cute.

[SolarFlux]

LOL @ cAspEr

http://www.linuxnewbie.org/ubb/wink.gif

[JoniMitchellRockedMyWorld]

What about running 'rm -r /' in one terminal while running 'make dep' for a kernel recompile in another terminal? Could be interesting to see what happens once the make command is deleted.

[X_console]

It's nice how old discussions resurface. http://www.linuxnewbie.org/ubb/smile.gif

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[bdg1983]

Use dd to write some random bits to places. Tons o' fun http://www.linuxnewbie.org/ubb/biggrin.gif

[mandeep]

uninstall lilo, you could use a bootdisk but i didn't have one and couldn't boot.

lilo -u

[Strike]

I think I'm responsible for resurfacing this one. I don't remember where I posted it to, but I linked it in another post. I was actually trying to find the discussion in the forum about zeroing a hard drive, and that was one of the ones that came up (close, but no cigar). I liked it so much that I bookmarked it, and then later linked to it.

Or it could have just happened all on its own http://www.linuxnewbie.org/ubb/smile.gif

[NumberOneSlacker]

With a 386 I just hooked some wire somewhere to some spot on the motherboard where it would fit, just to see what it does. I turned it on, and it filled the whole house with smoke!! My room smelled just like the race track after a fresh crash. I opened the case, the wire I hooked was completely fried. I cut it out and kept it as a sovenier.

[This message has been edited by NumberOneSlacker (edited 24 April 2000).]

[Craig McPherson]

Just plug in the power connector to a floppy drive upside-down, and it'll smoke and eventually burn as well.

[Beowulf_Ghost]

I'm still waiting for the flyback transformer to go out on the old IBM serial terminal on my RS/6000.

There's nothing like a catostophic failure to brighten up your day!

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[Kinjana]

I've always wanted to set the default runlevel to 6

Kinj

[matte]

Kinjana just make a bootdisk and set the runlevel to 6 and try it then change it back with the bootdisk..hey that gives me an idea http://linuxnewbie.internet.com/ubb/smile.gif
Matt

[Squid_boy]

Write a script and put it in your /etc/rc.d/rc5.d directory to swap to runlevel 3. Then put one in your /etc/rc.d/rc3.d to change to runlevel 5.

[2thumbs]

I don't know about you, but a baseball bat does the trick for me. Guaranteed fun. Of course it's a onetime deal and slightly expensive if you plan on repeating the experiment http://www.linuxnewbie.org/ubb/smile.gif.

[Strike]

Nah, I think the best way would be to write a program to go out to each file on your system and take out ONE BYTE (at random) from each of them. Hehe, that should screw up most executables and archives easily, and the only thing that would be close to okay would be text files...

[bdg1983]

Hehe, just found a new one...
cd /
grep -r e *
Doesn't destroy it, but once it starts going through /dev...
Muwahahahahaha
One of the *very* few times I've managed to crash linux. the other was when I wrote a c program thusly:

#include <stdio.h>
#include <unistd.h>
int main() {
while(1) fork();
return 0;
}

Ouch.

Hehe, I love ressurecting dead discussions.

[jintxo]

here's one that may or may not hose you, this one is a very unreliable method, but it worked great for me http://www.linuxnewbie.org/ubb/smile.gif

strip /usr/lib/*
strip /usr/X11R6/lib/*
strip /usr/local/lib/*

and watch her segfault to death http://www.linuxnewbie.org/ubb/smile.gif

[Darth Mandeep]

It wouldn't matter if you changed the default runlevel to 0 or 6.

Just type "linux 3" at LILO. Edit file, and you're done.

[Prototype II]

If you have a Coppermine CPU at 100MHz FSB, overclock the FSB to 150MHz and enable Ultra ATA.

Watch your precious data get corrupted on writes.

[Darth Mandeep]

run this script


#!/bin/sh
rm -r /home
mkdir /Eclipse
mv /bin /root

[Serbot]

this thread is probably f*cking with my mind and I'll hit enter right after rm -r / on purpose and not know it.

[Sterling]

Best way to screw up a Linux box - install Windows on it. Goes from working to non-working very quickly. http://www.linuxnewbie.org/ubb/wink.gif
Yes, this is partially serious. Remember that when you install Windows, it re-writes the MBR in its own image. So if you don't have a bootdisk or a partitioning program with Ext2 support, you're in for a bit of fun.

Apologies if this joke has already been made. I skimmed the thread, and didn't bother to read it too carefully.

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[davolfman]

My way of trashing a computer is a little more on the physical side. I haven't tried it with linux yet (only dos 6) but I'm sure it'll work just as well. It's all a matter of the right tools:

1 30lb sledge hammer (mine has fiberglass handle)

1 Weird gardenning tool that looks like a pickaxe.

1 6' long by 1" diameter hardened steel spike with sharp point at one end and 3" long sharp flat point at the other end. (I think it's another garden implement)

1 machete-like knife made from car leaf-spring steel


Me and a friend took all this to an old 386sx I found at a garage sale a few weeks back. His comment: "Methinks it has been debuged . . . Thoroughly!" I have pictures I can post if you want (If I caqn figure out how that is)

[spacial_K]

A good alternative:

1: Get a dephibrolator

2: Put the paddles on the motherboard

3: Charge to full power

4: Zap it


More of a hardware destruction but still, a classic. http://www.linuxnewbie.org/ubb/wink.gif

[TheLinuxDuck]

This really isn't a trashing story, but it's a funny story anyhow...

I used to have this old 486 (about 5 years ago) that had one of the first soundblasters in it. Welp, over time, that soundblaster card started warping. Of course, the only free ISA slot was the lowest slot.

One day, I turned on my machine, and it started freaking out. Flashing weird shizzit on the screen and beeping at me. Quickly, it stopped and began to billow smoke through all openings. Which, I have learned is not typical computer behavior. http://www.linuxnewbie.org/ubb/smile.gif

I opened up the case and let it air out, then got to looking.. Well, the SB has curled so much that part of the electronics on the underside were touching the metal on the bottom of the case.

I pulled the sound card out and looked at it. About an inch or so of the bottom was totally charred. nasty nasty smelly soundcard.

I didn't have any others, and didn't have the cash to buy anything new, so I thought What the heck, I'll plug it back in and see what happens.. so I put a pencil eraser inbetween the case and the card. plugged it back in, turned it on. guess what? it worked!! The sound card worked just fine after that.

In fact, I used it for another year.

http://www.linuxnewbie.org/ubb/smile.gif

Strange things are afoot (or ahand).



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Wait... that's a penguin?!?!?

[The King Ant]

This wouldn't exactly destroy, but I've always wanted to "chmod a-x chmod". Or maybe "rm rm".

[-Stalker-]

BeeBee, I know something better!
Try to give a command

find > /dev/hda1
find > /dev/hda5
find > /dev/sdb
............... only if you are maniac!

and then boot from floppy and view your disk with old Norton Disk Editor ;-)

Notification: -Stalker- does not follow any destructions of your system or data. Use it at your own risk!

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[This message has been edited by -Stalker- (edited 02 August 2000).]

[daWabbit]

Geez; All I have to do is turn the box on. Sooner or later, I'll rip it up. <G>. Come to think on it, I did the same thing with that Seattle OS, too. I guess I'll either have to get an abacus or learn how to do it right.

[bdg1983]

Oh yeah, almost forgot this one (sadly, I've actually used this one, unintentionally):
create a user. Edit /etc/passwd to make his UID and GID 0. userdel -r <user>
When I did it it took out /usr/bin before I realized what happened...
Poor little thing, and it was only a 386 running debian http://www.linuxnewbie.org/ubb/frown.gif

EDIT: Moral of the story is: DON'T run userdel -r on a root user... http://www.linuxnewbie.org/ubb/biggrin.gif

[This message has been edited by bdg1983 (edited 02 August 2000).]

[Sweede]

Originally posted by Prototype II:
If you have a Coppermine CPU at 100MHz FSB, overclock the FSB to 150MHz and enable Ultra ATA.

Watch your precious data get corrupted on writes.

really ?
i have a p3 533/133fsb running at 155fsb and it runs perfectly. even on 100mhz RAM (cas2 of course)

if you have a ****ty motherboard, you wont get a high enough divider to run 155mhzFSB at 38mhz PCI like me http://www.linuxnewbie.org/ubb/smile.gif (agp is at 78mhz )

[fenris]

In the winter through the box through the snow blower http://www.linuxnewbie.org/ubb/smile.gif

[NateCoz]

The funny thing about all of this is that to crash your Linux box, you really have to work at it!

Oh, here's another one for you. The only way I've had Windows up for more than 2 days at a time was by running it in a VMWare machine... under linux...
http://www.linuxnewbie.org/ubb/smile.gif

[krylos]

screw with the power supply onyour hard drive. add something conductive to the end of the cables, cut wires, do whatever.

If you do it right, your hard drive is dead as soon as you start. And then, when you install a new hardrive... its dead too.

yippie

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krylos

"When linux is outlawed, only outlaws will have linux."
NetCrack (http://www.netcrack.homestead.com)

[krylos]

heres a way to crash a windows box.

start it
try to do something productive

the end

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krylos

"When linux is outlawed, only outlaws will have linux."
NetCrack (http://www.netcrack.homestead.com)

[LiNK_v69]

okay, try this, i am not sure i have done it myself.
on root

cd /etc/
chmod 777 system.cnf

or

just rename /etc/system.cnf

have fun

it shouldnt be able to boot

[pointreyes]

Originally posted by Coral Sea:
Having played with Linux for a few weeks now, if there's one thing that Windows 98 and NT are better at, it's recovering from hard boots. I find that Linux does not recover very well from hard boots and, in some cases, doesn't recover at all.

I'm going to keep playing, though, because it's obvious that Linux gets better with every release.

Actually, only Windows 2000 can handle hard boots. One time it took Norton Utilities 45 minutes to recover Windows 98. There was only one application up and running. What am I saying! There can only be one application up and running in 98!

I got so tired of the Blue Screen that I change the settings to make the Blue Screen a Black Screen and the white letters have been changed to a deep purple. Now it's fun again to see 98 crash. http://www.linuxnewbie.org/ubb/smile.gif

[Dangerboy]

YOU ARE ALL PSYCHO!!!!

Actually, I would like to try a few of these procedures on my Linux From Scratch system once I get it all running perfect. http://www.linuxnewbie.org/ubb/smile.gif

[ep0k]

Get on the internet

open netscape 4.x

go to www.freshmeat.net (http://www.freshmeat.net)
click on something you want to download.

when the download applet comes up and asks you where you want to download to click (do not type) ".." until you are at the "/" directory then double click "dev" when it asks you if you want to overwrite "/dev" say yes. Should work with "/etc" as well

enjoy and happy compucide!

ep0k

[cxpx]

Found this on the net. Good way to wreck your box or someone else that you don't like

How to make diskette bombs

You need:

- A disk
- Scissors
- White or blue kitchen matches (they MUST be these colors!)
- Clear nail polish

- Carefully open up the diskette (3.5" disks are best for this!)

- Remove the cotton covering from the inside.

- Scrape a lot of match powder into a bowl (use a wooden scraper,
metal might spark the matchpowder!)

- After you have a lot, spread it evenly on the disk.

- Using the nail polish, spread it over the match mixture

- Let it dry

- Carefully put the diskette back together and use the nail polish
to seal it shut on the inside (where it came apart).

- When that disk is in a drive, the drive head attempts to read
the disk, which causes a small fire (ENOUGH HEAT TO MELT THE DISK
DRIVE AND SCREW THE HEAD UP!!).

[Strike]

That's from the Anarchist's Cookbook... a lot of the junk in there is just that, junk. I mean they tell you to poke a hole in a tennis ball, stuff in about 300 strike-anywhere match heads, douse the tennis ball in gasoline, and then throw it at someone you don't like. First of all, it doesn't work, and second of all ... it's demented http://www.linuxnewbie.org/ubb/smile.gif

I mean, to seriously corrupt the files, just take a mega-magnet or two and stick it right on the hard drive and then boot. *poof*

PS - I nominate this thread for the "longevity" award.

[jintxo]

Originally posted by ep0k:

Get on the internet

open netscape 4.x

go to www.freshmeat.net (http://www.freshmeat.net)
click on something you want to download.

when the download applet comes up and asks you where you want to download to click (do not type) ".." until you are at the "/" directory then double click "dev" when it asks you if you want to overwrite "/dev" say yes. Should work with "/etc" as well

enjoy and happy compucide!

ep0k

Saving directly to /dev/null seems to give good results also!

[Darth Tminos]

Originally posted by Strike:
I mean they tell you to poke a hole in a tennis ball, stuff in about 300 strike-anywhere match heads, douse the tennis ball in gasoline, and then throw it at someone you don't like. First of all, it doesn't work, and second of all ... it's demented http://www.linuxnewbie.org/ubb/smile.gif


It does work... sorta.

[Beowulf_Ghost]

Just start pouring iron filling into your box. Exentually you'll get some sort of "response". Or pour thme into the back of your monitor.

Or, turn off your computer. Pour root beer over everything, let it dry for about an hour or so, then turn it on.

Or fill the hard drive with output from the zero device.

Hit your motherboard with a charged up Van deGraph generator. Some times you can actually get the printed cirutry to pull off the board.

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[Garbett]

Here's a fun one for you computicide sickos. I actually did this on an old 0.6? kernel (or whatever the hell was available in the early 90's--damn that was a long time ago).

$/bin/rm /lib/ld.so

Of course you can recover from a boot disk. But's it's fun in the meantime, because linux can't load anything. Even $init 1 will fail. Simple things like ls is linked shared.

Shawn

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[Jeld]

Well, I got a good one. Run a remote session ( telnet, ssh etc. ) and run an opengl program like Quake or unreal or whatever. That, locks up the linux system pretty good, since the opengl screen doesn't really get initialised, but takes control over mouse/keyboard. I have found that if everything goes "well" you can only hit reset. Nothing major if you use reiserfs though http://www.linuxnewbie.org/ubb/smile.gif

[Fandelem]

I was trying to overclock my p700 to p1050 and when I booted up in linux, it just gave me a bunch of 1's and 0's...

When I set it back down to around 900 mghz, it booted up fine.

I tried booting in Windows at around 1000 mghz and it totally corrupted Windows, even when I put it back down to around 700, it still was corrupted and I had to totally re-install. Go linux :}

[Corwin Amber]

I never tested this, but this is something to do with runlevels. Change your runlevel to 6 in inittab. Then in LILO change your default to Linux and timeout/delay to 0. This, by theory should put your computer in a loop. It's probably fixed by just using a boot disk.

[gaerne]

Originally posted by Fandelem:
I was trying to overclock my p700 to p1050 and when I booted up in linux, it just gave me a bunch of 1's and 0's...

When I set it back down to around 900 mghz, it booted up fine.

I tried booting in Windows at around 1000 mghz and it totally corrupted Windows, even when I put it back down to around 700, it still was corrupted and I had to totally re-install. Go linux :}



Not being a big fan of Windows or the newer Intels, this seems to make complete sense. I read a review when they first released the 1133mhz p3 and they found that windows had EXTREME problems at 1133mhz, and didn't work at all overclocked. In fact, the only way they got it running decently (i use "decently" lightly, consider this is windows we're talking about) was to underclock it to 900mhz. I think I also remember reading that they tried a *nix OS and managed to get it running at 1133... a few weeks later AMD releases a fully functional 1133mhz...
Down with the big dogs and more power to AMD + Linux! (Also notice who AMD gives 64-bit technology to for development- (SuSe) LINUX!)

As for how to destroy your box... running the thing while completely submerged in water actually works (or so i hear)...

My favorite one would be to remove the heatsink and fan and overclock it, then try and compile a good sized source code*... maybe this could be done while recompiling Linux? You can even distill alcohol using this type of heat source (I saw it a while back on slashdot) Or better yet, POUR alcohol on it to cool it off... Ahh, the smell of burning silicon in the morning!

*note: it may be a good idea to keep a fire extinguisher handy while doing this.

--gaerne

[rapjo]

This isn't completely system killing, but how about aliasing * in your .bashrc to reboot and give shutdown permissions to that user...startx
system entering runlevel 6!

[davolfman]

Can't we please just let this topic die!

[rapjo]

I dunno if this would do anything, but ya know that voltage switch in the back o your sys? Well, how about swithching it to the other system while on! That might rm -rf you box for good

[piix4]

How about.
Crack open the box. Set you bios jumper to maintenance mode. Over clock you cpu as far as you can. Set fan always on to no. Set a admin .pwl on bios. If really bored how about load the wrong checksum
RAFTER.
how bout
del user.dat system.dat .bak. 001 etc
del autoexec /config win.com .bak .old .ctl
del vmm32.vxd?
or how bout
compile for one of those visual workstation jobs and try to boot.
or run @ gwscan prompt?
well after
or totally remove heatsink/fan from cpu?
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[zGoRNz]

w0w crazy ****:
>Set a admin .pwl on bios.
ummm pwl is windows password files, so i think you mean a cmos setup password?

>del user.dat system.dat .bak. 001 etc
>del autoexec /config win.com .bak .old .ctl
>del vmm32.vxd?

I felt daring and di the above three commands as root heres all i got:

root@NiXEL # del user.dat system.dat .bak. 001 etc
bash: del: command not found
root@NiXEL # del autoexec /config win.com .bak .old .ctl
bash: del: command not found
root@NiXEL # del vmm32.vxd
bash: del: command not found
root@NiXEL #
(If you don't get it, this is a linux board, del is a dos command, you mean rm -Rf /etc/rc.d /boot as root?)


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to make a smile you just type the : ) (with no space)
like so:
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GoRN To The Rescue,
Yet Again
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[wmHardRock]

You can try this:
vim ****
i
du -h -r /* &
ls -l -r /* &
quake3 &
quake3 &
quake2 &
ut &
parsec &
xmms &
netscape &
staroffice

esc, :wq

chmod +x ****
./****

wmHardRock

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[davolfman]

Here's an interesting one, though it'll probably take a while on larger partitions. Pipe the random number device to a file and just leave it there for a few days. If it does what I think it does it should create a file that fills all available space on the partition. Better yet run it in the background and do it multiple times to different files to see if it does it any faster.

[zGoRNz]

Unstead of filling up the harddrive with files of randomness, what about
cat /dev/urandom > /dev/hda

| |
cat /dev/zero > /dev/hda


urandom is random, zero is 0's

(Not by random i mean not random, cause computers can't be random, they can however get random numbers off of the cycles or something, but they aren't really random, just almost random...)

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GoRN To The Rescue,
Yet Again
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[mastersibn]

My apologies if this has been suggested, but I couldn't help it:

Buy 20 pounds of peat moss.

Open the computer case.

Fill the case with peat moss.

Turn your computer on and watch it fry.

It doesn't exactly kill "Linux," but I guarantee you if you want to render a system useless, there aren't very many more interesting ways to do it. http://www.linuxnewbie.org/ubb/wink.gif


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For just a few MB of space, you too can give one of these poor helpless penguins a home on your hard disk. For some precious processor cycles, you can feed this innocent creature for months or years before it gets a cold.


Use Linux. You owe it to yourself. You owe it to the world.

[cs25x]

using mc
copy / from one box to another over the net.
using mc on the other box
copy / from one box to another over the net.

That made you think?
OK.
It is not exactly like that, That is just a modification of the real way to do it.
you copy the first box's / to a second drive on the second box using mc on the second box. You should get good overlap on these drives. Matter of fact it fried both boxes.
2.0.36 was the kernel cant recall what mc it was.
000000000000000000000 0

[piix4]

How bout crack open the cpu and unsolder and resolder the multipliers on the cpu to make it go twice as fast as it first did and don't bother to cool it after-RAFTER?
Didn't the term cmos originate in the atari?
Ok
how about
su
&*$$£@++=stuff
home piix4]# mv Desktop /dev/nvram
or is that stupid?
Some one else can try if they want?
Is Your Operating System Genuine?)
would it not be simpler to turn html on and insert html like?
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[jude]

Well the system will recover from this:
crash.c

while(1)fork();


compile crash.c with
gcc crash.c -o crash
run crash

The system will recover itself given enough time and resources, but it is quicker to reset and run fsck to fix the drive.
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[Pilot345]

Set the default run mode as 6 in the config file then your box will keep rebooting heeeheh.

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[purv_is]

The reason Linux takes such a pounding when you have an improper shutdown is that it has a number files open at any given time and it also has data stored in file buffers and swap that needs to be written to disk before shut down and it flushes this info at regular intervals so when you don't do a proper shut down you have three possible things happen 1) you interrupt a disk write
2) you interrupt a disk read
3) you lose unsaved data
Want to guess what happens when a hard drive is doing a write and suddenly loses power?

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[Rafiki]

This is going back on the BSOD (Blue Screen of Death) and just having to have some fun with linux... Well that being the case, and Windowz having all it's viruses, would that make some of these commands equivalent to the honor virus?

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[Bombdude]

I've got one. How about be a windoze user for years...then get a job as a network engineer...then hear about this fairly wonderful FREE OS called Linux. Then you install it, don't buy any books, just learn by the seat of your pants when you've got a few spare minutes here & there.

Then when you can't figure something out, and the MAN pages look like greek (cause all you're used to is windoze), get the thought in your head ...Hmmm wonder what *this* command does.

I have re-installed Mandrake about 46 times between 6 and 7.2, and I'm getting pretty good at learning what not to do. I'm also just good enough to run it as my production laptop at work with windoze 2000 in a VMWARE window for those apps that only run in windoze.

[blackwolf_c]

hmmmm how to crash linux.....
Being only good in Wondows, and a linux newbie, I am used to being treated like a dolt by my computer....

one time I logged in as a user, started an X session, got on the net [somehow got it working in that install], did a su -l to root in a term, and filled my HD to capacity with MP3s from a root mounted CD of MP3s. Locked up X, and since I couldnt shut down X windows, I just hit reset. Ouch. never got that install working again in X.

oh well.... that was 2 installs ago....

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[bdg1983]

Oh ye gods! I remember when this thread was first started... Do we win the "longevity" award yet? http://www.linuxnewbie.org/ubb/wink.gif

[Xtrecate]

Just a friendly reminder to unmount your windoze partition BEFORE the fun little rm -rf / command. *sob* although windoze is........well..........lame, i still relied on it for some things. BuhBye windows, guess im goin linux only.

[MBMarduk]

Nice.
Ask my dad.

We had an 8086 (7.14MHz) Leading Edge (Daewoo) box back in 1986 (or 1989?). A Desktop thing with the monitor on top of the case.
Poor thing got a nasty habit of suddenly becoming a bit more silent (!) after some uptime. I was watching TV next to him while he typed a letter, when the screen gave HIM (for a change) a monochrome-amber cursor to stare at.
He grabbed everything on top of the desk.
Raised it about three feet into the air.
Yelled. Hard!
And absolutely, thoroughly, brutally SLAMMED
the poor box onto the desk, and grumblingly walked away.

TRUTH!

I was already accustomed to his outbursts, but this -to me- is a classic.

-Mike.

[This message has been edited by MBMarduk (edited 04 January 2001).]