On Thu, 23 Aug 2001, Noah Meyerhans wrote: > Wouldn't you build a custom kernel soon after installation anyway? > That's generally recommended.
Is it? I used to do this, but now I try to avoid upgrading the kernel because right now everything is working fine and I don't want to mess with the packaging system. > Has it always been the case that /proc/sys/kernel/sysrq could disable > the magic sysrq key? This is new in 2.4, AFAIK. > I've heard some consider the sysrq key a security > hole, but if it can be disabled then there's no big deal. To press the SysRq key you need access to the keyboard. If you have access to the keyboard, you can do much worse things to the computer (like spilling coffee over it :) Walter
