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From: awm@doc.ic.ac.uk (Aled Morris)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: UNIX Remembered
Message-ID: <442@gould.doc.ic.ac.uk>
Date: 21 Sep 88 18:38:05 GMT
References: <1020003@hpisoa2.HP.COM> <9199@cup.portal.com> <1176@zippy.eecs.umich.edu>
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In article <1176@zippy.eecs.umich.edu>, cja@zippy.eecs.umich.edu (Charles J. Antonelli) writes:
> >In article <9199@cup.portal.com> DGD@cup.portal.com writes:
> >> An appropriate epitaph would be "cd /; rm -fr *;"
> >
> no, you want something like
> 	% /etc/shutdown -h now

Don't you mean:

	# /etc/shutdown -h now

or have you chmod'ed your "shutdown" to run SUID(*) root?  (now there's
and idea... :-)

Aled Morris
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(*) The SUID bit is copyright AT&T in the USA and other countries :-)