force a dump on a hung system?

2008-03-18 Thread Jay Lan
How do i force a dump on a hung system when 1) it does not respond to the serial console, and 2) there is no hardware button to trigger an NMI Am i out of luck? Thanks, - jay ___ kexec mailing list kexec@lists.infradead.org http

Re: force a dump on a hung system?

2008-03-18 Thread Bernhard Walle
* Jay Lan [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2008-03-18 21:45]: BTW, the SYSRQ_ENABLED in /etc/sysconfig/sysctl is not set by default. Any bad side effect of setting it? AFAIR security concerns. May I ask how RedHat/Fedora handles that? Bernhard ___ kexec

Re: force a dump on a hung system?

2008-03-18 Thread Neil Horman
On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 09:48:57PM +0100, Bernhard Walle wrote: * Jay Lan [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2008-03-18 21:45]: BTW, the SYSRQ_ENABLED in /etc/sysconfig/sysctl is not set by default. Any bad side effect of setting it? AFAIR security concerns. May I ask how RedHat/Fedora handles that?