Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261486AbTIOPpU (ORCPT ); Mon, 15 Sep 2003 11:45:20 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261487AbTIOPpU (ORCPT ); Mon, 15 Sep 2003 11:45:20 -0400 Received: from fw.osdl.org ([65.172.181.6]:40922 "EHLO mail.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261486AbTIOPpR (ORCPT ); Mon, 15 Sep 2003 11:45:17 -0400 Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2003 08:38:54 -0700 From: "Randy.Dunlap" To: "Jon Masters" Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, jcm@jonmasters.org Subject: Re: /proc/sys sysrq Message-Id: <20030915083854.07c46285.rddunlap@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <60603.62.173.87.60.1063639907.squirrel@mail.printk.net> References: <60603.62.173.87.60.1063639907.squirrel@mail.printk.net> Organization: OSDL X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.4 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i686-pc-linux-gnu) X-Face: +5V?h'hZQPB9kW Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 936 Lines: 24 On Mon, 15 Sep 2003 16:31:47 +0100 (BST) "Jon Masters" wrote: | Hi, | | | Someone recently posted a message to Linux Managers about rebooting a box | with a failed drive and no serial console from a remote location. It | turned out in that instance that there was another drive and enough | working to copy a simple reboot binary to it. | | Anyway I was wondering whether there is an official "alternative sysrq" in | /proc/sys or if it would be worth me writing a patch to add things like a | reboot entry one could cat "feeldead" to or whatever...is this even worth | doing or been done? It's already there (in 2.4.recent and 2.5/2.6: /proc/sysrq-trigger) -- ~Randy - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/