Subject: Re: ctl-alt-del on console
To: Luke Mewburn <lukem@NetBSD.org>
From: Jean-Christophe Valiere <jyce@free.fr>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 03/22/2004 11:06:06
Selon Luke Mewburn <lukem@NetBSD.org>:

> On Mon, Mar 22, 2004 at 12:55:45AM +0100, Martin Husemann wrote:
>   | On Sun, Mar 21, 2004 at 10:40:19PM +0000, David Laight wrote:
>   | 
>   | > > can one enable the ctl-alt-del key sequence to trigger reboot
>   | > > NetBSD?
>   | > 
>   | > no - because it is a stupid idea.
>   |
>   | I'm not sure - now that we have powerd(8) we should (optionally)
>   | make it possible to inject that key sequence as a button press into
>   | the sysmon event stream. Just like the POWER button on some Mac or
>   | Sun keyboards.
>   |
>   | How the script run by powerd deal with it, is the users choice, of
>   | course.
> 
> That is a good idea.
> 
  What would be the advantage with the "reboot" command ??
  I will not say it a stupid idea but it is really useless, I think.

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