On Thu, 20 Apr 2000, Alan Curry wrote:
> The answer is /proc/sys/kernel/sysrq and it's been given already, but I have
> a followup question: why? In early 2.2 you could say Y to sysrq in config,
> and you had sysrq. Then someone added an extra hurdle in /proc. So now we
> have this mechanism by which you can get the kernel to do a few things even
> when userspace is hosed, but it's only good if you can
> echo 1 >/proc/sys/kernel/sysrq first. What good is that?
What good is that? A lot of good - you just make that default! Just edit
/etc/sysctl.conf and most of the time (except before you execute sysctl
from /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit) you will be ok.
The new /etc/sysctl.conf stuff as used in rh62 is quite neat btw.
Regards,
Tigran
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