From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754870AbZEQRNV (ORCPT ); Sun, 17 May 2009 13:13:21 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752908AbZEQRNL (ORCPT ); Sun, 17 May 2009 13:13:11 -0400 Received: from web23606.mail.ird.yahoo.com ([87.248.115.49]:40596 "HELO web23606.mail.ird.yahoo.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1751989AbZEQRNK convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Sun, 17 May 2009 13:13:10 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.it; h=Message-ID:X-YMail-OSG:Received:X-Mailer:Date:From:Subject:To:Cc:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=FR4fuqV2xXq6gSelD6PT6lTi/PNjUG2E5bc0c7TDxWyHLT4eHi2IFDIEVvI0qkVvENpv2hW0KHtQgeC72YSjhLBLvMXnSWH9xXcj9EWBNkYODB9R5QtgA7LDXNweS67+QcGIWNindwuGJKTQ7YiBgRS+GR0oIfHhgzWFrsKjWC4=; Message-ID: <668419.88351.qm@web23606.mail.ird.yahoo.com> X-YMail-OSG: rf0KwiIVM1lnPtpnw_9Xg3VbTQle7TM9bjkbOiI0Jfll5b958ULlo5vSci63Z49MSeD0MVLlHWtBPDr0kxm6Oq3GxyEKoxNaQYMdnIWhYtcg.SG6vIw4V2r9vd..Uey4DWv2RLW9jDglyuymdbdw4dSn1CX2j82A.4uXCyK3yCWN1VQscYtt5bxpohjMtEK.HRUqMDPCcdUa54P2GEdkq2j5AS6kKvjU2OcwLNhMQ_wDYOKfCuhcge0TX7ZaZ5kVi0jjJqjY1ImysLgMIom.PT02vGhgTLeUbplaTXO9i1s6G9DR X-Mailer: YahooMailClassic/5.2.20 YahooMailWebService/0.7.289.10 Date: Sun, 17 May 2009 17:13:09 +0000 (GMT) From: Andrea Subject: Re: super root shell/mode/api To: andi@firstfloor.org Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Thanks. I'll take a look. In order to be able to dump/terminate viruses, attacks and OOM processes an admin should have the possibility to *quickly* SIGSTP *all* processes except vga consoles and to switch from X11 to vga, maybe with SysRq. Is this possible? Andrea Gedda