On 18 May 2003, Mike Hicks wrote: > Regarding this, one of the more unique tricks I've seen is to pretty > much shutdown the system but keep the kernel running. I'm not exactly > sure how this is done, probably something along the lines of killing > most of the running software and then convincing init to exec() a > do-nothing program. I think it's even possible to run without having a > filesystem mounted (though it might be nice to at least have a logger of > some kind running). iirc this was a "feature" of the 2.2.x kernels... it would continue to route traffic and obey ipchains when it was in fact halted if i also recall correctly the 2.4.x kernels did something differently in halted mode that it did not work Munir Nassar _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list