From owner-freebsd-newbies Sun Dec 15 16:27:16 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DE6B837B419 for ; Sun, 15 Dec 2002 16:27:10 -0800 (PST) Received: from mailsrv.otenet.gr (mailsrv.otenet.gr [195.170.0.5]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B2BBF43EA9 for ; Sun, 15 Dec 2002 16:27:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: from gothmog.gr (patr530-a141.otenet.gr [212.205.215.141]) by mailsrv.otenet.gr (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id gBG0QuEP011630; Mon, 16 Dec 2002 02:26:58 +0200 (EET) Received: from gothmog.gr (gothmog [127.0.0.1]) by gothmog.gr (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id gBG0QG1R015298; Mon, 16 Dec 2002 02:26:55 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: (from keramida@localhost) by gothmog.gr (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id gBFHgcd1010503; Sun, 15 Dec 2002 19:42:38 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Date: Sun, 15 Dec 2002 19:42:37 +0200 From: Giorgos Keramidas To: Shyam Cc: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: SysRq on BSD ? Message-ID: <20021215174237.GI9246@gothmog.gr> References: <001501c2a36c$60c65000$16ba09ca@u4k8x8> <20021214175243.GA36106@gothmog.gr> <001201c2a3f3$9967eae0$e8a709ca@u4k8x8> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <001201c2a3f3$9967eae0$e8a709ca@u4k8x8> Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > On 2002-12-14 17:49, Shyam wrote: > > In Linux , you have the Magic keys Alt + SysRQ + s,u,b,o,u,t,.... > > What are they for? I seem to remember they weren't there (or I didn't > know abou them) back in 1998 when I started using FreeBSD. > > Anywhere we could find a description of their use? On 2002-12-15 10:05, Shyam wrote: > I think any Linux site would boast about having this topic either as > a HOW-TO or a discussion. tldp.org is their documentation project , > where you can get all HOW-TOs or I will just grab the documentation > from Linux box marked underneath . > [snip copy of sysrq docs] A lot of those tasks can be done within the `kernel debugger' of FreeBSD. Not all of them, and some not as easily, but similar functionality is present. Look at the ddb(4) manpage and at the commends for the options DDB and DDB_TRACE of the FreeBSD kernel. - Giorgos To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message