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  From: Richard Russell <richard@austrics.com.au>
  To  : LinuxSA@linuxsa.org.au
  Date: Fri, 12 Nov 1999 12:24:37 +1030

/proc/sys/kernel/sysrq

a quick question...

RH 6.1, my own 2.2.13 kernel...

On booting, I get an error complaining about a missing
/proc/sys/kernel/sysrq file. As far as I can tell, it is caused by the
following lines of code in  /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit 

-----------------------------------------
if [ "$MAGIC_SYSRQ" = "no" ]; then
        echo "0" > /proc/sys/kernel/sysrq
fi
-----------------------------------------

It seems to have no effect whatsoever on the running of my system --
it's just an annoying error on boot (which, BTW, I can't find evidence
of in any logs... -- if anyone could point me to the log which would
have this, I'd appreciate it...)

I think this has to do with Kernel debugging features, which are
switched off in my Kernel... (the last question in the config thing --
referring to a magic sysrq key for debugging...)

Is there any reason why this error should occur? I'm not all that
familiar with /proc, but it would appear to me that the above echo
command would create the file if it doesn't exist... or maybe the error
is being caused elsewhere, but I can't find it...

any help, pointers, etc appreciated

TIA

rr

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