No less that about four dozen administrators replied and confirmed my
suspicions that pressing (or bumping) the break key on a WYSE keyboard
will have the effect described below.
While some administrators though that regular us of this facilty was
"not advisable", nobody had actually been burnt by it - except of course
when some of their users had a process half-finished.
Terry
Original Question:
Excuse me for asking this question but I have to brush up my SOLARIS
skills after a year or so break. We have a number of SOLARIS servers
with WYSE consoles and keyboards.
The other day I found one of the servers was dead in the water on the
network but still turned on. The console displayed the OK prompt.
Entering "go" immedietly reactivated the machine - no boot up sequence.
It looks like somebody bumped some keys when moving the keyboard.
>From memory striking the "break" key can do this. Am I right ? Is this
OK prompt the same mode as the PROM monitor level ? Can a SOLARIS box
safely do this ?
Terry
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