e07@nikhefh.nikhef.nl (Eric Wassenaar) (12/18/89)
If you are logged in via rlogin, and enter inadvertently the 'suspend' character (usually ^Z in bsd environment) to your favorite shell, it triggers the execution of random commands that you executed earlier on the machine. Not necessarily in the same rlogin session, they could be commands from previous sessions, even from several days ago. They are not fetched from the ~/.history file. They must still be stored somewhere in memory. Spectacular results can be achieved if you have an rlogin session as root and have just installed vital software and rearranged half of your disk, and then want to suspend your whole rlogin session with ~^Z but did not press the ~ key hard enough. Needless to say this is unacceptable. Eric Wassenaar -- Organization: NIKHEF-H, National Institute for Nuclear and High-Energy Physics Address: Kruislaan 409, P.O. Box 41882, 1009 DB Amsterdam, the Netherlands Phone: +31 20 592 0412, Home: +31 20 909449, Telefax: +31 20 592 5155 Internet: e07@nikhef.nl