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You need to say "yes" to 'Magic SysRq key (CONFIG_MAGIC_SYSRQ)' when
configuring the kernel. When running a kernel with SysRq compiled in,
/proc/sys/kernel/sysrq controls the functions allowed to be invoked via
-the SysRq key. By default the file contains 1 which means that every
-possible SysRq request is allowed (in older versions SysRq was disabled
-by default, and you were required to specifically enable it at run-time
-but this is not the case any more). Here is the list of possible values
-in /proc/sys/kernel/sysrq:
+the SysRq key. The default value in this file is set by the
+CONFIG_MAGIC_SYSRQ_DEFAULT_ENABLE config symbol, which itself defaults
+to 1. Here is the list of possible values in /proc/sys/kernel/sysrq:
0 - disable sysrq completely
1 - enable all functions of sysrq
>1 - bitmask of allowed sysrq functions (see below for detailed function
description):
- 2 - enable control of console logging level
- 4 - enable control of keyboard (SAK, unraw)
- 8 - enable debugging dumps of processes etc.
- 16 - enable sync command
- 32 - enable remount read-only
- 64 - enable signalling of processes (term, kill, oom-kill)
- 128 - allow reboot/poweroff
- 256 - allow nicing of all RT tasks
+ 2 = 0x2 - enable control of console logging level
+ 4 = 0x4 - enable control of keyboard (SAK, unraw)
+ 8 = 0x8 - enable debugging dumps of processes etc.
+ 16 = 0x10 - enable sync command
+ 32 = 0x20 - enable remount read-only
+ 64 = 0x40 - enable signalling of processes (term, kill, oom-kill)
+ 128 = 0x80 - allow reboot/poweroff
+ 256 = 0x100 - allow nicing of all RT tasks
You can set the value in the file by the following command:
echo "number" >/proc/sys/kernel/sysrq
+The number may be written here either as decimal or as hexadecimal
+with the 0x prefix. CONFIG_MAGIC_SYSRQ_DEFAULT_ENABLE must always be
+written in hexadecimal.
+
Note that the value of /proc/sys/kernel/sysrq influences only the invocation
via a keyboard. Invocation of any operation via /proc/sysrq-trigger is always
allowed (by a user with admin privileges).