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Re: Invoking the screensaver AND backups [WAS:RE: Dying hard drive?]



On Mon, Dec 03, 2012 at 02:15:58PM -0600, Nelson Green wrote:
> 
> Chris Bannister, you mentioned /etc/inittab. I don't think that X passes
> the key presses to it, and I always disable that functionality anyhow. This
> is not an OS that needs that work-around for a reboot, and I don't want
> anyone else to have the ability to reboot my machine by switching to a VT
> and pressing that key combo.
 
OK. So they can't just down the computer from within X either?

> Mine is not an
> eloquent, nor superbly stable script, but it has never let me down.
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