Re: How to send a break?

[Jim Crilly]

On 05/27/06 02:58:44PM +0200, Haar János wrote:
> Hello, list,
> 
> I wish to know, how to send a "BREAK" to trigger the sysreq functions on the
> serial line, using echo.
> 
> I mean like this:
> 
> #!/bin/bash
> echo "?BREAK?" >/dev/ttyS0
> sleep 2
> echo "m" >/dev/ttyS0
> 

Is there a reason you can't use "echo -n m > /proc/sysrq-trigger"?

Jim.
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