Kali Linux 2018: Windows Penetration Testing - Second Edition

Configuring your Siege engine

What do you think would happen if we increase the number of besiegers to 10,000? The configuration is at /usr/bin/siege.config. When we run that on the command line, it tells us we already have a local configuration file at /root/siegerc, so let's go look at that:

To edit /root/.siegerc, we can use the command line or the Run Launcher (Alt + F2) to enter the name of our favorite text editor. Here, we are going to use gedit, so enter gedit /root/.siegerc . Alternatively, we could find gedit in the Usual Applications/Accessories folder, and open the file open dialog and turn on hidden files, then find .siegerc