Re: Crashing red hat linux

[James Washer]

Why oh why would one do that?? 

On any recent redhat kernel, simply enable magic sysrq by:
	echo 1 > /proc/sys/kernel/sysrq

Then force a panic at the console by hitting ALT-SysRq-c
or by
	echo c > /proc/sysrq-trigger


On Tue, 10 May 2005 11:42:39 -0400
Lee Revell <rlrevell@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Tue, 2005-05-10 at 01:26 -0700, dipankar das wrote:
> > Hi
> >  Does Red hat like Monta vista allow crashing the
> > kernel by writing to  "/dev/crash" if not whats the
> > easiest way ?
> 
> cat /dev/dsp > /dev/kmem should do it.
> 
> Lee
> 
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