From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Fri, 1 Jun 2001 12:05:07 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Fri, 1 Jun 2001 12:04:57 -0400 Received: from mailhost.idcomm.com ([207.40.196.14]:46734 "EHLO mailhost.idcomm.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Fri, 1 Jun 2001 12:04:47 -0400 Message-ID: <3B17BD33.F2DC6372@idcomm.com> Date: Fri, 01 Jun 2001 10:05:07 -0600 From: "D. Stimits" Reply-To: stimits@idcomm.com X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.5-ac5-1 i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 CC: Linux Kernel List Subject: Re: missing sysrq In-Reply-To: <200106010338.VAA13405@totalrecall.idcomm.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit To: unlisted-recipients:; (no To-header on input)@localhost.localdomain Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Dieter Nützel wrote: > > > D. Stimits wrote: > > > > > Bernd Eckenfels wrote: > > > > > > > In article <3B15EF16.89B18D@idcomm.com> you wrote: > > > > However, if I go to /proc/sys/kernel/sysrq does not exist. > > > > > > It is a compile time option, so the person who compiled your kernel > > > left it out. > > > > I compiled it, and the sysrq is definitely in the config. No doubt at > > all. I also use make mrproper and config again before dep and actual > > compile. Maybe it is just a quirk/oddball. > > > > D. Stimits, stimits@idcomm.com > > Have you tried "echo 1 > /proc/sys/kernel/sysrq"? > You need both, compiled in and activation. It is compiled in, but the echo is summarily rejected. Root is not allowed to write to that file, which doesn't exist. I'm going to just wipe out everything from that kernel and redo the whole thing. D. Stimits, stimits@idcomm.com > > Regards, > Dieter > -- > Dieter Nützel > Graduate Student, Computer Science > > email: nuetzel@kogs.informatik.uni-hamburg.de > @home: Dieter.Nuetzel@hamburg.de