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Date:      Fri, 30 Jul 2004 00:49:36 -0400
From:      Craig Rodrigues <rodrigc@crodrigues.org>
To:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Documenting machdep.enable_panic_key?
Message-ID:  <20040730044936.GA53134@crodrigues.org>

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Hi,

I was scratching my head about this today.  What do people
think about the following patch?  I can file a PR for it.


--- usr.sbin/kbdcontrol/kbdmap.5.orig	Fri Jul 30 00:41:05 2004
+++ usr.sbin/kbdcontrol/kbdmap.5	Fri Jul 30 00:42:54 2004
@@ -229,7 +229,11 @@
 Activate screen saver
 by toggling between splash/text screen.
 .It panic
-Panic the system.
+Panic the system.  The
+.Xr sysctl 8
+variable
+.Va machdep.enable_panic_key
+must be set to 1 to enable this feature.
 .It paste
 Act as mouse buffer paste.
 .El
--- sys/dev/syscons/syscons.c.orig	Fri Jul 30 00:36:41 2004
+++ sys/dev/syscons/syscons.c	Fri Jul 30 00:48:19 2004
@@ -135,7 +135,7 @@
 
 static	int		enable_panic_key;
 SYSCTL_INT(_machdep, OID_AUTO, enable_panic_key, CTLFLAG_RW, &enable_panic_key,
-	   0, "");
+	   0, "Enable panic via keypress specified in kbdmap(5)");
 
 #define SC_CONSOLECTL	255
 


-- 
Craig Rodrigues        
http://crodrigues.org
rodrigc@crodrigues.org



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