On Fri, 10 May 2002 19:40, Alessandro Speranza wrote: > On Fri, 10 May 2002, Russell Coker wrote: > > If what you want is a way to recover your machine when an invasive > > program like an X server hangs then the Secure Attention Keypress may be > > a better solution. > > > > I have the following in my init scripts: > > echo "control alt keycode 107 = SAK " | loadkeys > > > > That makes CTRL-ALT-END be the SAK key-press. Pressing it tells the > > kernel to send signal 9 to every process on the current virtual console. > > It works well for me when I have X crash (which hasn't happened in 4.1.x > > as far as I recall). > > The problem is that when it happened yesterday, the keyboard was > completely frozen and wasn't getting even soft reboot like control alt del
SAK will save you even in situations where C-A-D won't. C-A-D can be intercepted by the X server, almost nothing stops the SAK (although SE Linux might ;). -- If you send email to me or to a mailing list that I use which has >4 lines of legalistic junk at the end then you are specifically authorizing me to do whatever I wish with the message and all other messages from your domain, by posting the message you agree that your long legalistic sig is void. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
