[Sunhelp] stop A on non-Sun keyboard

[Dennis L. Lund]

On a console server when you send the break, it takes the remote machine to
the "ok" prompt.  You still maintain connection to the remote host through
the console.  You can then issue the boot, go or probe-scsi etc...

Dennis L. Lund
Sun System Administrator
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> Date: Thu, 25 May 2000 11:58:47 -0700 (PDT)
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> Won't your machine just sit idle once you hit Stop-A? I mean, you would
> lose all communication with it, and it won't reboot. Am I wrong? Hitting
> Stop-A on my Ultra 5 does not reboot the machine, just halts it.
> 
> 
> 
> On Thu, 25 May 2000, Ayson, Alison {Info~Palo Alto} wrote:
> 
> > I recently posted a question asking what was the equivalent of a Stop-A on a
> > non-sun keyboard.  Many replied that I try either "break" or "ctrl-break".
> > Unfortunately none of these options worked.  Someone else suggested trying
> > ~# but that also did not work.
> > 
> > Basically what I'm trying to do is set up a remote console for all of our
> > Sun servers.  I want to be able to reboot a machine from home.  I have been
> > able to get a Sun server connected to my terminal server and reboot using
> > the "reboot" command.  I don't lose my connection to the Sun during the
> > reboot and I see the whole reboot sequence, just as if I was logged onto the
> > console.  However I know that there will be times that I will need to use
> > "Stop-A".  I will most likely be trying to execute the stop-A from my PC at
> > home (logged into the console terminal server via telnet).  For the life of
> > me I cannot figure out how to emulate a stop-A from my PC keyboard.
> > There's got to be someone out there who's already doing the same thing???
> > Any ideas ??
> > 
> > Thanks!
> > 
> >    --- Alison
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