Testing Linux skills

[Bryan Sant]

On 1/18/06, Michael Halcrow <mike at halcrow.us> wrote:
> Heh. Here, I've got something to throw in root's crontab:
>
> #include <sys/types.h>
> #include <sys/stat.h>
> #include <fcntl.h>
> #include <unistd.h>
> #include <stdlib.h>
> #include <time.h>
> #include <stdio.h>
>
> int main()
> {
>         int fd;
>         unsigned long offset;
>         char buf;
>
>         srand(time(NULL));
>         offset = rand() % 2000000;
>         buf = offset % 255;
>         fd = open("/proc/kcore", O_WRONLY); /* You need SE Linux ;-) */
>         if (fd == -1) {
>                 printf("Run me as root\n");
>                 return 1;
>         }
>         lseek(fd, offset, SEEK_SET);
>         write(fd, &buf, 1);
>         close(fd);
>         return 0;
> }

Or for the lazy:
while true; do
cat /dev/random > /proc/kcore
done