On Mon, 5 Nov 2001, James wrote:
Incidentally, when I've used SysRq I've found it needed enabling with an echo 1 >/proc/sys/kernel/sysrq on boot. Do it. It's invaluable when your machine goes tits up.
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Thanks Ian
That gets my tip of the day vote! Just checked and found that my Eridani Linux 6.3 systems ( Redhat 6.2 update based ) all have that unset.
Presumably it will be the same story for other default RedHat systems.
One more change to default init that's highly recommended...
On an RH/Eridani system, look at /etc/sysctl.conf, and change the line kernel.sysrq = 0
to = 1.
If the line isn't there, add it.
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