What does slashdotted mean?

Culbert · 10-09-2003, 08:24 AM

I went to view the site www.groklaw.com regarding the SCO lawsuit and I got this message.

"The GrokLaw site has been slashdotted and is cooling off. Please check again in a few minutes or try the "old" site at Radio or the Google cache.
Our apologies for this interruption of service, the Webmaster."

I've heard the word slashdot before, but I was never sure what it meant. What exactly does this mean?

sidey · 10-09-2003, 08:50 AM

he prolly means a script kiddie has got hold of a new exploit and used ./ to run it (./ runs a command in the current dir where as <command> will run it from the paths in the users environment eg /usr/bin /bin etc)

Genesee · 10-09-2003, 09:16 AM

or he could mean that an article from there was posted to http://slashdot.org/ which generates a ton of traffic...

btw, both groklaw.com and slashdot are great sites, highly recommended

slakmagik · 10-09-2003, 10:59 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by sidey
he prolly means a script kiddie has got hold of a new exploit and used ./ to run it (./ runs a command in the current dir where as <command> will run it from the paths in the users environment eg /usr/bin /bin etc)

Wouldn't that be dotslashed?

Yeah, slashdot has a massive userbase and regularly demolishes servers with the flood of traffic that comes from being mentioned there, like Genesee says. Great site.

trickykid · 10-09-2003, 11:07 AM

General discussions are more suitable in General, not Linux - General. Moved at this time.