What should I tweak so I can use CONTROL-BREAK
to signal D3 to Break? In the past I've used
SET-BREAK 31 {31 is hex 1F} and that was good
for d3 7.4.2 on rhel 3 linux, ok at console or coming
in over the LAN, but now I'm running rhel 4 and
-with no tweaks- that keypress combo at the console
creates escape string ESC[P -- thanks a heap, RedHat.

That should work Frank. I have customers set up with the same config and it
is working there. However when I run into a situation where 31 does not
work, I use 06 which is <ctrl>F.

"Frank Winans" <fwinans (AT) sbcglobal (DOT) net> wrote

"Jeffrey Kaufman" wrote
Further info; I logged on as root and did showkey -a and showkey -s
which disclose the pause/break key emits same results with or without the
control key being held down. I tried an ancient compaq keyboard, same result.
That is, under rhel4 the control key is ignored. Under rhel3 I get scancode 101
when the control key is also being held down. I guess I could tweak linux so
I lose the 'pause' part of this key, and always get the 'break' part. Or maybe tie
one of the newfangled windows keys to the 'break' functionality. But why is such
a basic keyboard feature so messed up, in the 'just-unwrapped' state of the os?

"Frank Winans" wrote
when you do control-break at console, I've set up the
'one' digit on the keyboard, above the alphabet part, so
control-1 does a break. Still use SET-BREAK 31 in d3,
and all is well at console, serial, d3 and network logins again.

Have your S*local script of linux do loadkeys foo.us.map
Now finish the linux tweak by manually doing this once;
cd /lib/kbd/keymaps/i386/qwerty
cp us.map.gz foo.us.map.gz
gunzip foo.us.map.gz ; vi foo.us.map
j the cursor down to the line
keycode 2 = one exclam
and do A to append to the end so it becomes
keycode 2 = one exclam Break Break
hit escape and ZZ to save and exit. No need to gzip it again...
It shouldn't be this hard -- are X-phobes so rare in redhat-land?