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Top Forums UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers Is it a joke or a command? Post 303034650 by jim mcnamara on Wednesday 1st of May 2019 11:50:00 PM
Old 05-02-2019
One of our developers unleashed this very fork bomb. On a development box. Fortunately developers did not have shell level access to production. There is a special account to fix prod problems. That account has a password change every 7 days, when on-call rotates to another user.

This why you do not let anyone except a special highly controlled account onto prod. We script-ed the account, just to be able to report to auditors what exactly each and every action against the prod db and files was. This included code pushes.

And no, it is not a joke. Never trust anything from that site again if they presented the forkbomb as something benign.
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XFLIP(6)							   Games Manual 							  XFLIP(6)

NAME
xflip, meltdown - astonish your friends with interesting X effects SYNOPSIS
xflip [-planes] [-vert] [-oblic] [-fast | -random] [-times number] [-display displayname] meltdown [-planes] [-display displayname] [-delay x] [-wait n | -wait 0] DESCRIPTION
This manual page documents briefly the xflip, and meltdown commands. This manual page was written for the Debian GNU/Linux distribution (but may be used by others), because the original program does not have a manual page. The programs play with the X display, producing some interesting effects. One traditional use of these commands is to have them run and affect someone else's X display, as a practical joke. OPTIONS
-display displayname The X display to operate on. -planes Operate on a singleplane at a time. -vert Flip the screen vertically. -oblic Flip the screen vertically and horizontally at the same time. -random Flip small random peices of the screen instead of the while display. -times number Specifies the number of peices of the screen to flip when -random is used. Default is 300. -delay x Meltdown may run too fast on fast computers to be fully appreciated; this can be used to slow it down. If specified, every x times the display is updated, a 1 microsecond delay will be inserted. The default is no delay at all. Reasonable values for x are in the 20 to 200 range. -wait n Makes meltdown wait for n seconds after the screen is totally black. If you pass 0 to -wait, it will wait until you press a key or mouse button. AUTHOR
This manual page was written by Joey Hess, for the Debian GNU/Linux system. XFLIP(6)
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