As someone who’s relatively new to Linux, anyone want to explain what these lines would do? I’m aware of KILL, but dunno what the ‘-9’ refers to. Not familiar with sysrq-trigger
The kill command allows you to specify which type of kill signal you want to send. -9 sends signal 9 or SIGKILL, and we’re sending it to pid 1.
That would force kill systemd, which I just have to assume will send your computer to a crashing halt.
The echo command is writing "c" to a file at /proc/sysrq-trigger which I don’t really know how it works but this suggests you’ll “crash the system without first unmounting file systems or syncing disks attached to the system.”
I haven’t installed fuck so I’m not sure how that works
$ sudo kill -9 1
fuck you
$ echo "c" > /proc/sysrq-trigger
☠
As someone who’s relatively new to Linux, anyone want to explain what these lines would do? I’m aware of KILL, but dunno what the ‘-9’ refers to. Not familiar with sysrq-trigger
The
kill
command allows you to specify which type of kill signal you want to send.-9
sends signal 9 or SIGKILL, and we’re sending it to pid1
.That would force kill systemd, which I just have to assume will send your computer to a crashing halt.
The echo command is writing
"c"
to a file at/proc/sysrq-trigger
which I don’t really know how it works but this suggests you’ll “crash the system without first unmounting file systems or syncing disks attached to the system.”I haven’t installed
fuck
so I’m not sure how that works