Date: Fri, 21 Apr 1995 11:12:12 -0500 (CDT) From: Joe Greco <jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com> To: bde@zeta.org.au (Bruce Evans) Cc: wilko@yedi.iaf.nl, hackers@freefall.cdrom.com, pritc003@maroon.tc.umn.edu, rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com, terry@cs.weber.edu Subject: Re: [DEVFS] your opinions sought! Message-ID: <9504211612.AA12681@brasil.moneng.mei.com> In-Reply-To: <199504211557.BAA25506@godzilla.zeta.org.au> from "Bruce Evans" at Apr 22, 95 01:57:34 am
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> >My fav Sun trick: "L1-A, (putz with scsi bus), go" > > >My not-so-fav BSD trick: "halt, (putz with scsi bus), hit space to reboot" > > >Oh, how I wish for some way to just "pause" the OS sometimes. :-) It's > >sooooo handy and convenient to just add a tape drive by just plugging it in. > > What's wrong with Ctrl-SysRq to enter ddb? "ddb: No debugger in kernel" Those of us running unattended production systems cannot afford to have a machine crash into ddb, and not reboot. Otherwise, I'd agree... but right now, I have to drive a half hour to go reboot systems that lock. (by the way, this is one of the things that I hope serial consoles will buy for me, but haven't gotten around to checking on it. Is there any Ctrl-SysRq equivalent available on a serial console? BREAK?) ... Joe ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Joe Greco - Systems Administrator jgreco@ns.sol.net Solaria Public Access UNIX - Milwaukee, WI 414/342-4847
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