Hi, On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 3:11 AM, Gini <gheorghe.coserea@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, > The following bug is present in proc manpage (man proc): > - the /proc/sys/kernel/sysrq entry is missing. > > Proper documentation about this can be found in linux kernel source tree in > "Documentation/sysrq.txt" file. > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > $ dpkg -s manpages > Package: manpages > Status: install ok installed > Priority: important > Section: doc > Installed-Size: 1012 > Maintainer: Martin Schulze <joey@xxxxxxxxxx> > Architecture: all > Version: 3.14-1 > Replaces: bind, rsh-server (<< 0.10-7) > Suggests: man-browser > Description: Manual pages about using a GNU/Linux system > This package contains GNU/Linux manual pages for these sections: > 4 = Devices (e.g. hd, sd). > 5 = File formats and protocols, syntaxes of several system > files (e.g. wtmp, /etc/passwd, nfs). > 7 = Conventions and standards, macro packages, etc. > (e.g. nroff, ascii). > . > Sections 1, 6 and 8 are provided by the respective applications. This > package only includes the intro man page describing the section. > . > The man pages describe syntaxes of several system files. > -------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the report. For man-pages-3.19, I applied the patch below, which mostly draws text from Documentation/sysrq.txt. (From my point of view as upstream maintainer, it isn't needed to now write a Debian report, although I would have also picked up the report if you had written it there.) Cheers, Michael diff --git a/man5/proc.5 b/man5/proc.5 index 6c8abde..a6975dd 100644 --- a/man5/proc.5 +++ b/man5/proc.5 @@ -2291,6 +2291,33 @@ This file specifies the system-wide maximum number of System V shared memory segments that can be created. .TP +.I /proc/sys/kernel/sysrq +This file controls the functions allowed to be invoked by the SysRq key. +By default, +the file contains 1 meaning that every possible SysRq request is allowed +(in older kernel versionsm, SysRq was disabled by default, +and you were required to specifically enable it at run-time, +but this is not the case any more). +Possible values in this file are: + + 0 - disable sysrq completely + 1 - enable all functions of sysrq + >1 - bitmask of allowed sysrq functions, as follows: + 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 real-time tasks + +This file is only present if the +.B CONFIG_MAGIG_SYSRQ +kernel configuration option is enabled. +For further details see the kernel source file +.IR Documentation/sysrq.txt . +.TP .I /proc/sys/kernel/version This file contains a string like: -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-man" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
