Re: sysrq is ON by default [Re: Magic sys-rq key - how ?]

From: Jeff Garzik (jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com)
Date: Fri Apr 21 2000 - 07:07:38 EST

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Guest section DW wrote:
>
> On Fri, Apr 21, 2000 at 07:17:45AM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> > David Ford wrote:
> > > I just wanted to clear the air here. The magic key is definitely enabled by
> > > default.
> >
> > Funny, when I boot it says "Disabling Magic SysRq"
> >
> > Maybe it is just teasing me :)
>
> Here "it" is a boot-time script written by some anonymous Mandrake developer?

Doesn't necessarily need to be a script -- under Linux-Mandrake at
least, the setting is in /etc/sysctl.conf along with other sysctl
defaults. I presume higher security levels disable sysrq and lower ones
don't, but I haven't tested that presumption.

Jeff

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