Messages in this thread | | | From | "David Schwartz" <> | Subject | Re: scroll lock on virtual console, messes with whole kernel? | Date | Mon, 7 Jul 1997 16:01:04 -0400 |
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My guess is you had syslogd dumping to a console. With scrl-lock down, the console will block, causing syslogd to block. Everything calls syslogd. Don't output syslogd output directly to a console, that's BAD.
DS
---------- > From: Laszlo Vecsey <master@internexus.net> > To: linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu > Subject: scroll lock on virtual console, messes with whole kernel? > Date: Monday, July 07, 1997 2:51 PM > > After rebooting my system just now, I noticed that strange things were > going on.. new telnet connections weren't being accepted, I couldn't su to > root, etc. As soon as I hit 'scroll-lock' on the first VC everything > resumed back to normal! Why should scroll-lock behavior on one terminal > affect the rest of the system? I dont see this as a good thing. > > - lv
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