Thanks for the Virus.

[Kaj Haulrich]

On Wednesday 18 March 2009 17:49:36 Jonas Norlander wrote:
> 2009/3/18 Kaj Haulrich <kaj at haulrich.net>:

<snip>
> > An even safer method - if everything locks up - is to use the
> > "elephant sequence" - assuming the keyboard is still
> > functioning.
>
> I did a quick google search on "elephant sequence" and not much
> turned up but some disney movie and some old mails from you. Do
> you mean the SysRq keyboard shortcuts?
> Thats probably the best way if you cant get a console, but it
> have some drawbacks, like it want run any shutdown scripts. So if
> one still can access a console and run commands i think the
> safest method is to run reboot/shutdown.
</snip>

Yes, by the 'elephant sequence' i mean using three fingers holding 
down the [<Alt><SysRq>] + <r>, <s>, <el>, <i>, <u>, <b> (Raising 
Skinny Elephants Is Utterly Boring). That way the system will sync 
everything and then reboot, even if one can't get a console or 
terminal. I'm not sure if it will run shutdown scripts, but it was 
my ultimate rescue many times, when I succeeded in screwing my 
system up by messing around in arcane commands. It's still my last 
resort before pulling the plug.

Kaj Haulrich.
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