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