Subject: Re: shutdown with ctrl-alt-del
To: Roberto Pereyra <netbsd@gualeguaychu.gov.ar>
From: John Nemeth <jnemeth@victoria.tc.ca>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 09/05/2003 23:14:20
On Jan 18,  3:23am, Roberto Pereyra wrote:
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} I need it for shutdown a i386 box without display.

     Why don't you login remotely and issue a shutdown command that
way?

} On Thu, Aug 28, 2003 at 07:26:45AM -0300, Roberto Pereyra wrote:
} > 
} > I want to enable a Netbsd 1.6.1 shutdown with the keyboard like CTR-ALT-DEL in freebsd or linux.
} > 
} > I can do it ? What I must do ?

     The first answer is, "You can't do that.".  The second answer
would be to hack the keyboard driver to send a signal to init when
those keys are pressed, and then hack init to initiate a proper
shutdown when it receives the signal.

}-- End of excerpt from Roberto Pereyra