[SunHELP] Headless Ultra 10 question

Phil Stracchino alaric at caerllewys.net
Fri Aug 22 12:19:33 CDT 2003


On Fri, Aug 22, 2003 at 09:54:01AM -0700, Stefan Molnar wrote:
> Sending a BREAK over serial console still works when the keyboard
> is not attached.

Yes, it does.  But it doesn't if the keyboard-break sequence has been
disabled.  Which, according to man kbd, is what KEYBOARD_ABORT=disable
does.


>From my Solaris 9 /etc/default/kbd file:

# Uncomment the following line to disable keyboard or serial device
# abort sequences:                                 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
#KEYBOARD_ABORT=disable


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