Easy way to kill a 5.x/6.x box as a basic user.

[Edwin Groothuis]

On Fri, Oct 28, 2005 at 10:12:26AM +1000, Carl Makin wrote:
> I've been playing with some GIS software and 32Mb TIFF images.  Running 
> ImageMagick's "convert" utility  under my normal user login to convert 
> the image to gif or jpeg blows away the system every time.  No panic 
> seen on the console and no core dump found, the system just quietly 
> reboots.  Upon reboot /var is full and corrupt and takes ages for the 
> background fsck to fix it so I normally boot into single user mode and 
> do it myself.

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=kern/67919

Edwin

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