Hello from Gregg C Levine usually with Jedi Knight Computers
When I started populating my NetBSD drive with programs from the chosen CD,
a copy of 1.4, BTW, I noticed a package named CrashMe. I used pkg_info to
find out what it was. The utility told me that it was used for crashing the
Operating System, but did not go into details, outside of the basics. I
realize that these are units who are wearing serial debug connections, but
couldn't you use something similar? Go ahead, and laugh all of you, but this
is just my humble opinion, and only valid within the State of NY for one day
only. Will accept complaints, negative comments, off of this list.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: port-i386-owner@netbsd.org [mailto:port-i386-owner@netbsd.org]On
> Behalf Of James Chacon
> Sent: Sunday, August 27, 2000 12:31 AM
> To: thorpej@zembu.com
> Cc: Brian Buhrow; Jasper Wallace; Tomas T. Peiser CET;
> port-i386@netbsd.org
> Subject: Re: Need quick way to crash NetBSD box.
>
>
> >
> >On Thu, Aug 24, 2000 at 10:39:16AM -0700, Brian Buhrow wrote:
> >
> > > 	Why not just modify /etc/fstab such that the entry for
> > > the root filesystem is corrupted slightly.  this will cause
> it to panic on
> > > mountroot, which should be a good test.  Then, boot off a
> floppy, mount the
> > > root, modify /etc/fstab to be correct, and you're off and
> running again.
> >
> >No, that won't cause it to fail.  The initial mountroot is done by the
> >kernel.
> >
> >You could always remove init, I suppose.  Or kill -9 it.
>
> An accidental kill -9 of any user process shouldn't cause a system panic.
> There's already code sprinkled throughout the kernel to treat init special
> so why not make it immune to this as well?
>
> James