Messages in this thread | | | Date | 11 Apr 1999 18:23:18 GMT | From | (Marc MERLIN) | Subject | sysreq over serial console |
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I administrate machines remotely, and sometimes, they run out of processes, or other nice things like that, and I'm looking for the sysreq patch, or something like that, so that I can kill processes and/or reboot the machine through the serial port (configured at serial console).
I saw a patch a while ago that would do what I need I think, but I can't find it anymore, and I don't know if it'd still work on 2.2.x kernels...
(yes, I also know about softdog, the software watchdog, but in some cases, I find that it triggers either a bit easily and reboots my machine for nothing, or sometimes, I'd like to assess the situation myself and decide what to do (in some cases I have shells opened on the machine and it lets me fix the problem without rebooting))
Thanks for any pointers, Marc -- Microsoft is to software what McDonalds is to gourmet cooking
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