A Challenge from my Father
My Dad does support and development for a fairly large SharePoint intranet. I was helping him troubleshoot a small problem today, and somehow I managed to bring Drupal into the conversation:
by the way,
soultion == Drupal
Sheena Donnelly @ 3:34
Does Drupal do everything?
Dad @ 3:35
Yes!!
Sheena Donnelly @ 3:35
Bet it can't kill Zombies!
Dad @ 3:35
....
Sheena Donnelly @ 3:35
I bet someone could write a module that kills zombies!!
Sheena Donnelly @ 3:36
So, here is your challenge Drupalverse: write up a plan for Drupal's practical use during the Zombie Apocalypse.
Easy!
There is nothing Drupal can't kill.. I mean, can't do ;)
Assuming your father is talking about UNIX zombie processes, he's really underestimating the power of Drupal. Killing zombies is nothing for Drupal.
My colleague and I will give it a try tomorrow, keep an eye on http://drupal.org/project/zombiekiller!
:'-) I am so proud!!
:'-) I am so proud!!
Mission (almost) complete
I spent a few hour last night and here is the result!
http://github.com/joakim/drupal-zombiekiller
It actually works! Well, in theory anyway…
I believe you need to run your server as root in order to have Drupal slay the zombie processes, something you really shouldn't do. I'll give it a try later tonight, wish me luck!
Seeing how risky it is to kill zombie processes (no different from killing the human kind of zombies, really), I've contacted the Security Team to have them evaluate it before I put the code on drupal.org. But for now, have a look at the code in the GitHub project if you like. I hope reading the code is as fun as I had coding it!
Have you told you father yet? ;)
I have told Dad. He
I have told Dad. He commented on Facebook, but not here. Maybe I should direct him this way so he can personally express his reaction to being totally pwnd. :D
New Survival Plan
Step 1) Find someone with access to the admin on a Drupal site with ZK installed.
Step 2) Latch securely to them, and do not let go.
Maybe I'll make some "Deputy Zombie Killer" badges...
sudo kill -9 %{zombies}
Subject says it all.
Drupal is a great CMS
Drupal is a great CMS available in market i would say.
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