Linux + April Fools

agent_paul · 1 Apr 2009 at 08:35

Has anyone got any april fools pranks that you could do to a remote machine?

agent_paul · 1 Apr 2009 at 10:40

found one!

press alt+F2 then type "free the fish" without quotes

tntcoder · 1 Apr 2009 at 11:42

heh that's pretty cool, never seen it before

dangerstat · 1 Apr 2009 at 18:12

he he will have run showing that off tomorrow!

adeq1 · 1 Apr 2009 at 18:47

alias common commands to do something else instead

change the users shell to something else

change the default run level to 6?

BigglesPiP · 1 Apr 2009 at 19:41

If it's a machine a lot of people use at the same time:

Code:

wall
[your_choice_of_wally_error_message]
^D

oldbag · 1 Apr 2009 at 19:48

alias ls -al to rm -rf *

BigglesPiP · 1 Apr 2009 at 19:50

rm -rf /*

For even greater results.

Ross1234 · 1 Apr 2009 at 19:51

BigglesPiP said:
rm -rf /*

For even greater results.

what does it do?

BigglesPiP · 1 Apr 2009 at 19:52

If you don't already know, don't try it.

Ross1234 · 1 Apr 2009 at 19:53

BigglesPiP said:
If you don't already know, don't try it.

I was just about to! :eek:

And how do i stop the fish swimming across my screen its getting annoying!

BigglesPiP · 1 Apr 2009 at 19:56

Ross1234 said:
I was just about to!

Only really works a root anyway.

tntcoder · 1 Apr 2009 at 20:05

Fork bomb

Code:

:(){ :|:& };:

in bash, will crash the box if it isnt setup to limit the number of user programs.

And how do i stop the fish swimming across my screen its getting annoying!

killall gnome-panel

(it will auto restart with no fish)

LabR@t · 1 Apr 2009 at 23:05

agent_paul said:
found one!

press alt+F2 then type "free the fish" without quotes

? dont do nowt

.one. · 2 Apr 2009 at 04:29

lol loved the fish.

.walls · 2 Apr 2009 at 20:06

LabR@t said:
? dont do nowt

it's a gnome thing

agent_paul · 3 Apr 2009 at 13:55

i did the fish thing to all of the developers on the team. seeing those confused faces was funny