Re: stop-a

[Martin Habets <errandir_news@mph.eclipse.co.uk>]

On Tue, Nov 23, 2004 at 03:30:20PM +0100, Jurzitza, Dieter wrote:
> I accidentally found that "stop a" is active on a running sarge. Is this by intent? SuSE switched that off and made a configuration option - who wants it on may turn it on.
> I haven't found anything similar in SARGE, don't you think that would make sense?
> Just a commentary; should I rise a bug-report for that?

I'm not sure why this is so. I don't mind, but that's just personal preference
I guess. Wonder if turning it off will make Magic-SysReq work on my serial
console? ... no :(.

Anyway, you can turn it off using:
echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/stop-a
or by editing /etc/sysctl.conf.

Martin