CentOS - Apr 2007 - system crash by "find"

Is it possible to crash a system just by running the find command?  I
connected to a machine running CentOS 5.0 x86_64 and issued a command:

find / -name filename -print

Now, this machine is not responding to a ping.  I cannot see what
happened until I get to the box tomorrow morning.  Although I seldom
do a find / , I had never seen this sort of problem before.

Akemi

On Sun, 2007-04-29 at 14:12 -0700, Akemi Yagi wrote:
> Is it possible to crash a system just by running the find command?  I
> connected to a machine running CentOS 5.0 x86_64 and issued a command:
> 
> find / -name filename -print
No, that shouldn't crash a system.

-- Daniel

On 4/29/07, Akemi Yagi <amyagi at gmail.com>
wrote:
>
> Is it possible to crash a system just by running the find command?  I
> connected to a machine running CentOS 5.0 x86_64 and issued a command:
>
> find / -name filename -print
>
> Now, this machine is not responding to a ping.  I cannot see what
> happened until I get to the box tomorrow morning.  Although I seldom
> do a find / , I had never seen this sort of problem before.
>
> Akemi


 Unless you're taking things like disk errors, corrupt memory, etc.

Output on the console should give you a good indication of why
the system is going down ..

  Rich
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