On 4/29/07, Akemi Yagi <amyagi@gmail.com> wrote:

Is it possible to crash a system just by running the find command?  I
connected to a machine running CentOS 5.0 x86_64 and issued a command:

find / -name filename -print

Now, this machine is not responding to a ping.  I cannot see what
happened until I get to the box tomorrow morning.  Although I seldom
do a find / , I had never seen this sort of problem before.

Akemi

Unless you're taking things like disk errors, corrupt memory, etc.

Output on the console should give you a good indication of why
the system is going down ..

Rich