[rescue] cheapness..

[Kris Kirby]

On Mon, 24 Jun 2002, Linc Fessenden wrote:
> > If the machine is directly attached to a suffciently large UPS and has a
> > good uptime, put a bomb in /etc/rc.
>
> Why would the UPS matter with a deadman switch?  Just set it so that if I
> didn't reset the switch in 3 days it overwrites the hdd with /dev/null or
> /dev/random?

Because they might pull the machine out of service. This happened to me.
Machine nuked itself on bootup. 8-)

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