It is on by default. On redhat it is turned on/off by config.
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Thomas Dodd wrote:
> Alan Curry wrote:
> >
> > Paul Barton-Davis writes the following:
> > >to get the magic sysrq key to work ? none of the last 4 kernels that
> > >I've built have had a working sysrq key, and its getting to be a
> > >problem.
> >
> > The answer is /proc/sys/kernel/sysrq and it's been given already, but I have
> > a followup question: why? In early 2.2 you could say Y to sysrq in config,
> > and you had sysrq. Then someone added an extra hurdle in /proc. So now we
>
> The SysRQ functions needed to be controlable.
> So the /proc interface was added.
>
> Then someone (Linus?) decided it should be
> OFF by default (for security?).
> Like other nice features, it's safer
> to have them off, and turned on when
> you know you want them on. You could always
> edit the code, and have it on by default.
>
> -Thomas
>
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