Re: Alt+ArrowUp (inittab kbrequest)
Quoting J Horacio MG (homega@vlc.servicom.es):
> ~> I think you need to archive your postings and their replies a
> ~> bit more efficiently. I was about to cut and paste a previous
> ~> reply on the subject when I noticed that the question was posed
> ~> by you!
>
> I can assure you they are efficiently enough archived. I asked why
> Alt+ArrowUp would shutdown the system while it's not configured to
> perform that task, and whether it would be safe to comment the line
> which refers to it in /etc/inittab:
>
> # Action on special keypress (ALT-UpArrow).
> kb::kbrequest:/bin/echo "Keyboard Request--edit /etc/inittab to let this
> work."
>
> See? it doesn't say anywhere to shutdown the system (at least that I
> know), but it does.
>
> The answer I got about a year ago was about configuring Ctrl+Alt+End to
> perform the shutdown task, which works perfectly.
>
> Thank you anyway for your concern
I'm sorry. I thought in light of the previous thread's reply
that you would know to look and see was already defined in
/etc/kbd/default.map.gz to produce KeyboardSignal (which you
yourself must have already made equivalent to shutdown).
I hope it's all sorted now and you have removed
alt keycode 103 = KeyboardSignal
Cheers,
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