(sec: unclas) Re: Linux on UltraSPARC - Ignoring serial port break

Frank Ranner Frank.Ranner at defence.gov.au
Thu Nov 14 18:00:04 EST 2002


Dale Shaw wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Does anyone know how to configure Linux to ignore breaks received on the
> serial port? Every time I exit my comms software it sends a break and
> the system goes into OpenBOOT. In Solaris, you can add a variable
> "KEYBOARD_ABORT=disable" to /etc/default/kbd (or use "kbd -a disable")
> to disable keyboard aborts.
> 

If it has a key, you can turn it to the lock position. That disables 
stop-a and break.

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