[Sunhelp] stop A on non-Sun keyboard

[Alan Rubin]

if you issue a probe-scsi while the operating system is still running, you
could do some 'damage', or so the system warns.

alan

On Thu, 25 May 2000, Dennis L. Lund wrote:

> 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
> (678)291-3519  i(678)300-6071 p(888)640-8265
> e-mail: dllund at hermes.nextel.com
> 
> 
> > X-Authentication-Warning: aristotle.nowcom.com: fsommers owned process doing 
> -bs
> > Date: Thu, 25 May 2000 11:58:47 -0700 (PDT)
> > From: Frank Sommers <fsommers at nowcom.com>
> > To: "'sunhelp at sunhelp.org'" <sunhelp at sunhelp.org>
> > Subject: Re: [Sunhelp] stop A on non-Sun keyboard
> > MIME-Version: 1.0
> > X-BeenThere: sunhelp at sunhelp.org
> > X-Mailman-Version: 2.0beta1
> > List-Id: General discussion / help / chat about Sun machines and software 
> <sunhelp.sunhelp.org>
> > 
> > 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
> > > 
> > > _______________________________________________
> > > SunHELP maillist  -  SunHELP at sunhelp.org
> > > http://www.sunhelp.org/mailman/listinfo/sunhelp
> > > 
> > > 
> > 
> > _______________________________________________
> > SunHELP maillist  -  SunHELP at sunhelp.org
> > http://www.sunhelp.org/mailman/listinfo/sunhelp
> 
> _______________________________________________
> SunHELP maillist  -  SunHELP at sunhelp.org
> http://www.sunhelp.org/mailman/listinfo/sunhelp
> 
> 

_________________
*Alan Rubin*
Sun/Unix/Networking/ISP/Web Writing
Email:rubin at ezy.net