The OK prompt.

2007-12-25 10:16:00

No less that about four dozen administrators replied and confirmed my

suspicions that pressing (or bumping) the break key on a WYSE keyboard

will have the effect described below.

While some administrators though that regular us of this facilty was

"not advisable", nobody had actually been burnt by it - except of course

when some of their users had a process half-finished.

Terry

Original Question:

Excuse me for asking this question but I have to brush up my SOLARIS

skills after a year or so break. We have a number of SOLARIS servers

with WYSE consoles and keyboards.

The other day I found one of the servers was dead in the water on the

network but still turned on. The console displayed the OK prompt.

Entering "go" immedietly reactivated the machine - no boot up sequence.

It looks like somebody bumped some keys when moving the keyboard.

>From memory striking the "break" key can do this. Am I right ? Is this

OK prompt the same mode as the PROM monitor level ? Can a SOLARIS box

safely do this ?

Terry

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