On 4/29/07, Akemi Yagi <amyagi at 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 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20070430/a69b2d1a/attachment-0004.html>