On Wed, 29 Sep 1999, Hauke Fath wrote:

> At 2:27 Uhr +0200 29.09.1999, Bill Studenmund wrote:
> 
> >I think a better way to do this is add a sysctl which controlls this. The
> >kernel config option would then just initialize the value one way or the
> >other. When we get a break, we look at this value. If it's 1, we break. If
> >0, we don't.
> 
> Yep. I like that one, too, as I can think of very good reasons to switch
> the behaviour on break on the fly.

Right. :-) You can disable break just before you unplug your serial
console. Then when you hook it back up, you can log in as root and
re-enable it. :-)

Take care,

Bill