[rescue] Re: [SunRescue] OT: AS/400 stuff

Gil Young rescue at sunhelp.org
Wed Jun 6 18:49:47 CDT 2001


I came across the below hack as a file called "dontrunme", well, it was in a
directory of a friend, and it was 755, so being the curious type, of course
I ran it!

One very unhappy Gould Firebreather sysadmin later, well, lets just say he
learned how to apply process quotas after that.

Gil Young
Call Sign: KG4KVX
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----- Original Message -----
From: <dave at cca.org>
To: <rescue at sunhelp.org>
Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2001 6:38 PM
Subject: Re: [rescue] Re: [SunRescue] OT: AS/400 stuff


> n2vip at bellatlantic.net writes:
>
> >I remember my first runaway program - I heard about the internal job
reader,
> >you could pass a PDS member to this particular utility, and it would
submit
> >the job to the queue. Dopey me, I wrote a program that submitted it's own
> >PDS member to the reader - what fun ensued!
>
> $ cat > ouch
> #!/bin/sh
>
> sh ./ouch &
>
> ^D
> $ sh ./ouch
>
> Is a notorious test of a unix system.
>
> (Double the "sh ./ouch &" line for added fun and excitement.)
>
> -- david fischer -- dave at cca.org -- www.cca.org -- Cthulhu told me to. --
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