On Fri, 27 Apr 2001, David Talkington wrote:
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> scott.list wrote:
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> >3. other things I can try if it happens again short of an ungracefull power
> >cycle?
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> Another thought on this: if you have a root window open to this system
> somewhere at the time of the failure, you can sometimes sneak out of
> this safely by doing 'exec reboot'. That may work cleanly even if you
> can't fork a process ... it saved me a big fsck once. Type carefully,
> because you only get one chance at this. =)
>
You may also want to look into the magic-sysrq keys. You have to enable
them, because they are disabled by default in /etc/sysctl.conf. They
are documented in sysrq.txt in the Documentation directory of the kernel
source.
Mikkel
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