[Sunhelp] stop A on non-Sun keyboard

Amy turtlex at feeding.frenzy.com
Thu May 25 13:20:27 CDT 2000


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 ??
> 

install putty.

click: telnet command ->break








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