Amanda Unvarnished

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Amanda CAARSON

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Then an actual Linux cron job was being run on the old server every 3 hours. It would run wget on index.php with that specific GET parameter set.

If there was no response or the status was not “200 ok”, it would try again and again.

Again and again, until the machine crashed.

—@alda

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