Re: is killing zombies possible w/o a reboot?

[Ian Campbell]

On Thu, 2004-11-04 at 09:07 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
> [root@coyote root]#  cat /proc/sys/kernel/sysrq
> 0

Aha :-)

> And no, I'm not turning it off anyplace in the boot proceedure.

Something must be -- you can see in drivers/char/sysrq.c that
sysrq_enabled is set to 1 by default and according to bkbits.net it has
been that way since at least 2.4.0.

does the following not come up with any culprits?
	# grep -r sysrq /etc

Ian.

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