linux-kernel - Re: I can't activate term(e) and kill(i) magic SysRq key

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Message-ID: <ea2f0a37-9691-4595-bcb3-881e29d83ee0@juntadeandalucia.es>
Date: Wed, 3 Jan 2024 09:50:54 +0100
From: Luis Muñoz Fuente <luis.munoz.edu@...tadeandalucia.es>
To: Christian Kujau <lists@...dbynature.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: I can't activate term(e) and kill(i) magic SysRq key


El 2/1/24 a las 21:45, Christian Kujau escribió:
> Maybe. Some distributions choose to disable certain sysrq functions. See 
> the page you cited, on the very top: what does "sysctl kernel.sysrq" say? 
> If it's anything but "1", certain or all sysrq functions are disabled.

Hello:
I had gotten involved. I was looking at the option the kernel was
compiled with by default:
grep -i CONFIG_MAGIC_SYSRQ /boot/my_kernel
instead of looking at what option I had chosen:
cat /proc/sys/kernel/sysrq
Thank you