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Jun. 21st, 2008 11:50 amName ten Unix commands capable of sending mail.
Name ten Unix commands capable of destroying your system.
My answers:
Name ten Unix commands capable of destroying your system.
My answers:
telnet, pine, sendmail, mail, perl, php, crontab (ok, indirectly, but mail still gets sent), emacs
...and after consulting google: rmail, mailx
rm, sudo, su, mv, fdisk, :(){ :|:& };:, crontab (again, somewhat indirectly. Or a halt for * * * * *. Not really "destructive", but quite annoying. Or use previously mentioned fork bomb.), echo ("" > [some important file here]), perl and php and probably irb (creating some sort of recursive hard drive space eater)
...and after consulting google: rmail, mailx
rm, sudo, su, mv, fdisk, :(){ :|:& };:, crontab (again, somewhat indirectly. Or a halt for * * * * *. Not really "destructive", but quite annoying. Or use previously mentioned fork bomb.), echo ("" > [some important file here]), perl and php and probably irb (creating some sort of recursive hard drive space eater)