[CentOS] Ways To Practice Breaking My System?

2012-02-21 Thread Alex Walker
Hi All I've been looking into some ways to break a CentOS system so I can perform some simulated disaster recovery and get some hands-on practice with rescue mode and other system recovery tools. I'm thinking to start off with things like corrupting the password file with random characters, br

Re: [CentOS] Ways To Practice Breaking My System?

2012-02-21 Thread Alex Walker
On 21/02/2012 10:14, David wrote: > On 21/02/2012, Alex Walker wrote: >> Does anybody have any creative suggestions for ways >> to break the CentOS boot process? > I have *not* actually tried it myself, but this might help you: >http://trouble-

Re: [CentOS] Ways To Practice Breaking My System?

2012-02-23 Thread Alex Walker
> Things like boot process rarely break. Try something like filling up your > root or tmp partition. That just seems to be a bit more common as far as > problem scenarios go. > Thanks for the reply. I've recently started working for a large hosting company, so there's a reasonable amount of scope