Re: Magic sys-rq key - how ?

From: Horst von Brand (vonbrand@sleipnir.valparaiso.cl)
Date: Thu Apr 20 2000 - 21:17:51 EST


Wakko Warner <wakko@animx.eu.org> said:
> Tigran Aivazian on Thu, Apr 20, 2000 at 09:12:11PM +0100 said:

[...]

> > 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.

> And it does absolutely NO good if the machine doesn't even get to userspace.
> 2.3.99pre kernels have a problem with NFS-root and crashes. Be nice if I
> could just use the thing instead of having to go through the source and undo
> the change. But what good is it to have it *DISABLED* at boot up? I
> believe that's what his question was.

Fail open, i.e., unless you take steps to enable possibly risky behaviour,
it is disabled.

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