<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">You know what happens in early slackware or RHEL if you type “killall” with no args, as root? <div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I do :)</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">It does, exactly what you tell it to do...<br class=""><div class="">
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<div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Dec 10, 2020, at 4:53 PM, Valdis Klētnieks <<a href="mailto:valdis.kletnieks@vt.edu" class="">valdis.kletnieks@vt.edu</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class="">On Thu, 10 Dec 2020 18:56:04 -0500, Max Harmony via NANOG said:<br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">Programs have never done what you *want* them to do, only what you =<br class="">*tell* them to do.<br class=""></blockquote><br class="">Amen to that - there was the time many moons ago when we launched a copy of a<br class="">vendor's network monitoring system, and told it to auto-discover the network.<br class="">It found all the on-campus subnets and most of the machines, and didnt seem to<br class="">be doing anything else, so we all headed home.<br class=""><br class="">Come in the next morning, and discover that our 56k leased line to Nysernet<br class="">(yes, *that* many moons ago) was clogged with the monitoring system trying to<br class="">do SNMP probes against a significant fraction of the Internet in the Northeast.<br class=""><br class="">Things apparently went particularly pear-shaped when it discovered the MIT/Boston<br class="">routing swamp...<br class=""><br class="">And of course, we *told* it "discover the network", when we *meant* "discover<br class="">the network in this one /16.". Fortunately, it didn't support "discover the<br class="">network and perform security scans on machines" - but I'm sure there's at least<br class="">one security-scanning package out there that makes this same whoopsie all too<br class="">easy to do, 3+ decades later...<br class=""><br class=""></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></body></html>