Re: [QA] SysRQ

[Christopher Beland <beland alum mit edu>]

I updated the wiki page to include this; thanks for the info.

-B.

On Tue, 2009-03-17 at 15:07 -0500, Chris Adams wrote:
> Once upon a time, Rick Stevens <ricks nerd com> said:
> > Oh, BTW, Fedora 10 kernels appear to be compiled with SysRq enabled.
> > At least mine are (x86_64):
> > 
> > 	CONFIG_MAGIC_SYSRQ=y
> 
> AFAIK all RHL, Fedora, and RHEL kernels have had this for many years.
> The default is to disable it during boot (when /etc/sysctl.conf is
> loaded) for security; you can re-enable it at any time (for one-time use
> or permanently) with sysctl.