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

[Dale Shaw]

Frank,

Thanks -- that's done the trick.

Cheers,
Dale

-----Original Message-----
From: Frank Ranner [mailto:Frank.Ranner at defence.gov.au] 
Sent: Thursday, 14 November 2002 6:09 PM
To: Canberra Linux User Group
Subject: (sec: unclas) Re: Linux on UltraSPARC - Ignoring serial port
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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.
> 

Google says that

echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/stop-a

may be helpful.

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