Re: missing sysrq

H. Peter Anvin
2001-06-02T16:48:41Z

Followup to: <20010601203841Z261493-933+3160@vger.kernel.org>
By author: Dieter =?iso-8859-1?q?N=FCtzel?= <Dieter.Nuetzel@hamburg.de>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> Am Freitag, 1. Juni 2001 16:51 schrieben Sie:
> > > Have you tried "echo 1 > /proc/sys/kernel/sysrq"?
> > > You need both, compiled in and activation.
> >
> > no, look at the code. the enable variable defaults to 1.
>
> Then there must be a bug?
> I get "0" with 2.4.5-ac2 and -ac5 without "echo 1".
>
> Fresh booted 2.4.5-ac2:
>
> SunWave1>cat /proc/version
> Linux version 2.4.5-ac2 (root@SunWave1) (gcc version 2.95.2 19991024
> (release)) #1 Mon May 28 05:42:09 CEST 2001
> SunWave1>cat /proc/sys/kernel/sysrq
> 0
>

Let me guess... you're using a RedHat system? RedHat, for some
idiotic reason, defaults to actively turning this off for you (and
they turn Stop-A off on SPARC, too.)

-hpa
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