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Name

/proc/sysrq-trigger - SysRq function

Description

/proc/sysrq-trigger " (since Linux 2.4.21)" Writing a character to this file triggers the same SysRq function as typing ALT-SysRq-<character> (see the description of /proc/sys/kernel/sysrq ). This file is normally writable only by root. For further details see the Linux kernel source file Documentation/admin-guide/sysrq.rst (or Documentation/sysrq.txt before Linux 4.10).

See Also

  1. proc(5)