alt+sysrq combinations on PE KVM switches

[Todd Lyons]

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On Fri, May 11, 2007 at 02:51:54PM -0600, Robert Wehner wrote:

>The KVMs use USB/PS2 ports to connect, not the serial port. Do the
>SysRq functions work in non-serial console set-ups? Reading some of
>the Google hits on this it seems that serial consoles are the norm for
>using the Magic SysRq combinations.

It works from any text console.  To be honest, I did not know it would
work on a serial console; I had never tried that.

>I'd appreciate any help or experiences that anyone has to share. Thanks!

Make sure that the sysctl function you're setting is actually making its
way out of the config file into the running config:
  cat /proc/sys/kernel/sysrq

I've never used the Alt-SysReq sequence on our 2161DS either, so I'm
not authoritative beyond what I said above.
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