Haven't done this, but i have leaned on the Big Red Button before.

Jun 20, 2019 3:45 PM

orbitn

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zack?

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Done it...yep, it'll wake your ass right up..

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They don't call me Booby Tables for nothing.

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Bobby

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Fuckdamnit! Sonofabitch!

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Try typing 'shutdown -h now' into the wrong terminal window.

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"and you should be using sudo and not a root shell" (i'm old school and work in shells, some of my systems didn't even have sudo)

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I've done something similar. Back in the ooold days when i was just starting on solaris but was familiar with Linux, i tried to kill >

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all instances of a runaway script using 'killall', like you would in linux at the time. Let me tell you why that's a bad idea. You see

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killall in linux just stopped all programs with that name. In solaris, killall is the second-to-last executable run before shutdown, used

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to stop every running program no matter what so the system can sync and halt/reboot. the correct program is pkill. It was a very large DB.

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And filesystems were not yet journaled. you had to have vxfs for that fancy stuff.

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