Re: [ctrl]-[alt]-[del] => 'shutdown -h now'
Hi
I think the line you are looking for will be in the startup file,
/etc/inittab somewhere. Here are the apropriate lines from my own
(Slink) system's /etc/inittab file, along with the (very useful) lines
immediately below it in the file.
# What to do when CTRL-ALT-DEL is pressed.
ca:12345:ctrlaltdel:/sbin/shutdown -t1 -a -r now
# Action on special keypress (ALT-UpArrow).
kb::kbrequest:/bin/echo "Keyboard Request--edit /etc/inittab to let this work."
You should be able to edit your /etc/inittab as Root, find the line with
"shutdown" in it, and change the "-r" to a "-h". Remember to use the
command "telinit q" (still as root) to make Init re-read the changed
file.
Note, If you never need to shut down your system using
[ctrl]+[alt]+[del], you can remap this key combination to _ANY_ command
line, not just "shutdown". You can also edit /etc/inittab to assign a
command to [alt]+[up-arrow] as shown above. One thing I have
experimented with is to assign [alt]+[up-arrow] to the command "pon",
and [ctrl]+[alt]+[del] to "poff". I can then start and stop PPP on my
Debian box (which is my firewall/IP masq box), without needing to switch
my monitor on, wait for it to give a picture, and log in, or needing to
telnet in from the PC I want to surf from.
Regards
Simon Hales
On Tue, 1 Aug 2000 alan@socrates.cat-it.co.nz wrote:
>Hi Group,
>
> Currently when I 3-finger-salute my laptop It seems to run
>'shutdown -r now' I remember a previous post which mentioned
>changing this to 'shutdown -h now' - but I can't seem to dig it out
>... can anyone jog my memory...
>
>Cheers, Alan
>Alan McNatty (alan@catalyst.net.nz)
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