You know what happens in early slackware or RHEL if you type “killall” with no args, as root?
I do :) It does, exactly what you tell it to do... —L.B. Lady Benjamin PD Cannon, ASCE 6x7 Networks & 6x7 Telecom, LLC CEO b...@6by7.net <mailto:b...@6by7.net> "The only fully end-to-end encrypted global telecommunications company in the world.” FCC License KJ6FJJ > On Dec 10, 2020, at 4:53 PM, Valdis Klētnieks <valdis.kletni...@vt.edu> wrote: > > On Thu, 10 Dec 2020 18:56:04 -0500, Max Harmony via NANOG said: >> Programs have never done what you *want* them to do, only what you = >> *tell* them to do. > > Amen to that - there was the time many moons ago when we launched a copy of a > vendor's network monitoring system, and told it to auto-discover the network. > It found all the on-campus subnets and most of the machines, and didnt seem to > be doing anything else, so we all headed home. > > Come in the next morning, and discover that our 56k leased line to Nysernet > (yes, *that* many moons ago) was clogged with the monitoring system trying to > do SNMP probes against a significant fraction of the Internet in the > Northeast. > > Things apparently went particularly pear-shaped when it discovered the > MIT/Boston > routing swamp... > > And of course, we *told* it "discover the network", when we *meant* "discover > the network in this one /16.". Fortunately, it didn't support "discover the > network and perform security scans on machines" - but I'm sure there's at > least > one security-scanning package out there that makes this same whoopsie all too > easy to do, 3+ decades later... >
