>[1] ps aux will segfault if it lacks enough memory, but ls is sparten
> enough to run even when you're a moronic developer and do dumb
> things[0]. so off to /proc, do an ls */exe|grep bad.proggie (which
> doesn't crash - what does ps do with ram?!) and then kill the
> offender. cat /proc/process.number/cmdline will give you more
> info in case your proggie is a perl script so you can kill the
> right one.
And in the nasty case where ls can't get enough mem to work or
more likely with me you have amusingly shafted your shared libraries
(or I suppose if you reckon its a trojan ls) then you can use echo * as
its built into tcsh and flailing away with tab with bash should do the
same as I think echo isn't built in there.
C.
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