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On Monday 18 June 2007 12:22:59 Kevin O'Gorman wrote: |
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> On 6/18/07, Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk> wrote: |
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> > On Sun, 03 Jun 2007 21:16:58 -0400, Ken wrote: |
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> > > If you have physical access to the machine and have support for the |
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> > > Magic SysRq built into your kernel, you can kill the X server by |
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> > > pressing ALT + SysRq + K. This will kill all processes running on the |
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> > > current terminal. |
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Hrm, I thought this killed ALL processes, but I could be wrong. Is that maybe |
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Alt+SysRq+e or Alt+SysRq+i? |
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> > If you are accessing via SSH, you can still use this with |
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> > echo k >/proc/sysrq-trigger |
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> Nice. However, I'm still wondering -- neither of my keyboards has a keytop |
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> labelled sysreq. What is it? |
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My laptop has a specific key for it. IIRC, (my desktop is not in front of |
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me), it shares a key with 'Print Screen'. On both (again, IIRC) it's usually |
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shortend to just 'SysRq'. |
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