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Re: solaris ^[[1J reboot


From: john () DBMX COM (John Allen)
Date: Tue, 12 Aug 1997 09:51:22 +0100


Scott Moseman wrote:

At 08:46 AM 8/11/97 +0200, you wrote:

How to reboot a sun ultra running solaris 2.5.1 from the
console, when being logged in as a normal user, without touching
STOP-A. (tested on ultra1 140m)

perl -e 'print "\e[1J"'

on the console without starting X11. This will send your ultra
to kingdom come and only a power-on reset can get it back ...


SunOS xxx 5.5.1 Generic_103640-06 sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-1

It simply clears the screen on the above system ...


bad trap and panic induced on :-

SunOS xxx 5.5.1 Generic sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-1

John Allen

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