On Wednesday 23 May 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Quote from "Debian Reference" > > "8.5.2 Alt-SysRq > > Insurance against system malfunction is provided by the kernel compile > option "Magic SysRq key". Pressing Alt-SysRq on an i386, followed by one > of the keys r 0 k e i s u b, does the magic. > Un`r'aw restores the keyboard after things like X crashes. Changing the > console loglevel to `0' reduces error messages. sa`k' (system attention > key) kills all processes on the current virtual console. t`e'rminate > kills all processes on the current terminal except init. k`i'll kills > all processes except init. > `S'ync, `u'mount, and re`b'oot are for getting out of really bad > situations. > Debian default installation kernels are not compiled with this option at > the time this document is written. Recompile the kernel to activate this > function."
I have this compiled into my kernels. Do not know why it got selected and never knew what it was until now. Try it the next time! Thanks for the info. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]