Subject: Re: ctl-alt-del on console
To: David Laight <david@l8s.co.uk>
From: Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@tensor.3miasto.net>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 03/22/2004 14:22:49
> On Sun, Mar 21, 2004 at 11:03:02PM +0100, Hanspeter Roth wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > can one enable the ctl-alt-del key sequence to trigger reboot
> > NetBSD?
>
> no - because it is a stupid idea.
>
exactly. think about your machine that gets rebooted every time someone
using this machine locally will get message in windoze that server
doesn't respond ;)
definitely no to CTRL-ALT-DEL.
but code that will run any (user defined) program when some (user defined)
key/key combination is presset will be very very useful.
it can then be used to do shutdown -r after ctrl-alt-del, but it can't be
default