John Abreau wrote: > > Rodent of Unusual Size <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > 1. Is there any way to get access to the console through the > > serial port? I have another system that does this for VMS > > and T64U systems (anyone remember VCS?), but it's unclear > > to me whether Linux supports it -- and, if so, how I can > > set it up. I basically want to be able to give an irresistable > > three finger salute through the serial port if need be, to > > *force* a crash/reboot. > > If the system is hung, rebooting like this won't work.
The wedge-shaped event was behaving like a full process-table and a load average of 50. I could communicate -- slowly -- with existing daemons. So I think it would still respond to a hardware reboot instruction. -- #ken P-)} Ken Coar, Sanagendamgagwedweinini http://Golux.Com/coar/ Author, developer, opinionist http://Apache-Server.Com/ "Millennium hand and shrimp!" ***************************************************************** To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the text 'unsubscribe gnhlug' in the message body. *****************************************************************
