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SubjectRe: query related to serial console
On Thu, Jan 18, 2007 at 05:39:15AM +0000, Seetharam Dharmosoth wrote:
> I have one doubt in this regard.
> 1) once we connected to the serial console we don't
> want to login into the shell.
> (without login into the shell we want to fire the
> sysrq command like b, r m, etc.)
>
> for this I am doing like
> grabing the serial console then
> doing ctrl+]
> so that getting
> telnet>
> now i want to give command like b, m ,r etc.
>
> but it is not accepting my commands until I do
> telnet> send brk
>
> can you please explain me why like this behavior ?

If it didn't require a break before hand, merely pressing 'b', 'm' or 'r'
would trigger the sysrq command, which would make it absolutely impossible
to login or type any normal command containing those characters.

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