Re: Non keyboard trigger of Alt-SysRQ-S-U-B

2001-04-04 Thread Boris Pisarcik
> If you have a serial console on the server, you can get sysrq by > sending a serial break followed by the character. Hi, i've tried it with minicom and functioned : ctrl+a+F and key for function as in normal sysrq. This approach will probably not help you a lot thought, since you wouldn't ha

Re: Non keyboard trigger of Alt-SysRQ-S-U-B

2001-04-04 Thread Boris Pisarcik
Hi Nathan, I've just made an experimental module which offers syscall to privileged process, which internally translates itself into real sysrq handler (handle_sysrq) defined in drivers/char/sysrq.c. It occupates itself one of unussed linux system calls (concretely stty - no. 31). Makefile

Re: Non keyboard trigger of Alt-SysRQ-S-U-B

2001-03-25 Thread Keith Owens
On Sun, 25 Mar 2001 10:27:28 -0600, Nathan Neulinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Is there any way that this can be triggered remotely? I frequently get >into situations with a particular machine where 'reboot' or 'reboot -f' >just plain won't work, and would like to be able do a 'filesystem clean

Non keyboard trigger of Alt-SysRQ-S-U-B

2001-03-25 Thread Nathan Neulinger
Is there any way that this can be triggered remotely? I frequently get into situations with a particular machine where 'reboot' or 'reboot -f' just plain won't work, and would like to be able do a 'filesystem clean' forcible reboot, but don't particularly care about services being shut down cleanl