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Re: "3 fingers"

To: Aaron Jackson <jackson@negril.msrce.howard.edu>
Subject: Re: "3 fingers"
From: Tobias Weingartner <weingart@wolfram.com>
Date: Tue, 05 May 1998 13:29:04 -0500
cc: bunbun@reptile.rug.ac.be, claret@corinne.cpio.org, misc@openbsd.org
Delivery-Date: Tue May 5 11:30:49 1998

On Tuesday, May 5, Aaron Jackson wrote:
> 
> I have my OpenBSD i386 machine in my bedroom where nobody but myself uses it.
> I have been able to totaly freeze up the system at least once a week and
> the only thing it responds to is pressing the reset switch.  I would
> like another option, as I am afraid one day my hard disk will really get
> trashed.

<ctrl-alt-esc>boot sync

might work if you are not in X when it happens (and you have the sysctl vars
set right).

--Toby.

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