Re: scroll lock on virtual console, messes with whole kernel?

David Schwartz (djls@gate.net)
Mon, 7 Jul 1997 16:01:04 -0400

My guess is you had syslogd dumping to a console.
With scrl-lock down, the console will block, causing syslogd
to block. Everything calls syslogd. Don't output syslogd
output directly to a console, that's BAD.

DS

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> From: Laszlo Vecsey <master@internexus.net>
> To: linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu
> Subject: scroll lock on virtual console, messes with whole kernel?
> Date: Monday, July 07, 1997 2:51 PM
>
> After rebooting my system just now, I noticed that strange things were
> going on.. new telnet connections weren't being accepted, I couldn't su
to
> root, etc. As soon as I hit 'scroll-lock' on the first VC everything
> resumed back to normal! Why should scroll-lock behavior on one terminal
> affect the rest of the system? I dont see this as a good thing.
>
> - lv