Re: SYSRQ key

Myrdraal (myrdraal@jackalz.dyn.ml.org)
Mon, 23 Mar 1998 00:07:53 -0500


On Sun, Mar 22, 1998 at 11:05:23PM -0500, Scott McDermott wrote:
Hi,
> I find this alarming; I run the stable kernel and have tails of syslogs
> on the last VTs which are accessible from the three rightmost on the
> upper row (pause/break et al in combinataion with shift, control and
> alt); i have 12 syslogs tailed on these three. I wouldn't want to lose
> this ability if a key is hardcoded into the kernel; could you explain a
> bit about this 2.1 feature so I can panic now before 2.2 comes out with
> it?
Magic SysRQ is an optional compile time option.
-Myrdraal

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