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Re: begone ctrlaltdel!



On 09-Jul-2000 Ethan Benson wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 08, 2000 at 11:43:44PM -0400, Bob Bernstein wrote:
>> Suppose I want to dis-able the three fingered salute. Is it sufficient to
>> simply comment out this line in /etc/inittab:
>> 
>> # What to do when CTRL-ALT-DEL is pressed.
>> ca:12345:ctrlaltdel:/sbin/shutdown -t1 -a -r now
> 
> i am uncertain what control-alt-delete will do if you comment this
> out, it might revert to DOS/Windows behaviour of rebooting the machine
> uncleanly...

No, it certainly won't. When this line is commented out, ctr-alt-del does
nothing. 



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