[QA] SysRQ

Chris Adams cmadams at hiwaay.net
Tue Mar 17 20:07:13 UTC 2009


Once upon a time, Rick Stevens <ricks at 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.
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Chris Adams <cmadams at hiwaay.net>
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