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[mrideout at windserve.com (Matt Rideout)]

That's good to know. I knew about sysrq, but not the sysrq-trigger file. 
I'll keep that in mind if this comes up again.

Thanks to everybody for your help.

Adric Net wrote, On 09/21/2009 11:36 AM:
> Hi all,
>
> If the kernel has sysreq, you should be able to trigger it with cat  
> into proc.
> You use the same key sequences for it that you would with the SysReq  
> keystrokes:
>
> echo b > /proc/sysrq-trigger #etc
>
> RH doc: http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/enterprise/RHEL-4-Manual/en-US/Reference_Guide/s2-proc-sysrq-trigger.html
> Wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_SysRq_key
>
> hth,
> adric
>