Bart Verwilst a.k.a Bort :: Blog » sysrq http://blog.verwilst.be Linux, Open Source. That's pretty much it. Sat, 15 Oct 2011 13:13:25 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.4 Panic at the disco! http://blog.verwilst.be/2007/12/14/panic-at-the-disco/ http://blog.verwilst.be/2007/12/14/panic-at-the-disco/#comments Fri, 14 Dec 2007 10:56:05 +0000 Bart Verwilst http://weblog.verwilst.be/2007/12/14/panic-at-the-disco/ Linux kernels are brave warriors, standing up against lots of bad hardware and rootkits.

But even the mightiest warrior has a soft spot. The Linux kernel in particular is just terrified of the letter ‘c’.

Meaning you can force a kernel to panic by just doing the following:

# echo c > /proc/sysrq-trigger

Great for testing, not recommended in production ;)

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