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Re: begone ctrlaltdel!



Hi,
actualy, it depends on how your distrib is configured: sometimes, it does
nothing, sometimes, it reboots cleanly your computer. There's a file to
change but I don't remember which one.


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----- Original Message -----
From: Lehel Bernadt <blehel@kabelkon.ro>
To: <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
Sent: Sunday, July 09, 2000 12:33 PM
Subject: 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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