On 2019-06-20 05:07, Philip Webb wrote: > 190619 Ian Zimmerman wrote: > > I'd like to have a quick way to halt my system from the keyboard, > > without relying on obscure key combinations such as Alt-Up. > > Logging in as a special user (with a special password) would be ideal. > > Why don't you simply goto another raw terminal via Ctl-Alt-F2 (F3 etc), > login as 'root' & issue 'shutdown -h now' ?
Too much typing :-P In the end I set up the Alt-Up hack again, because this thread convinced me nothing else would be as lightweight, in multiple senses. -- Please don't Cc: me privately on mailing lists and Usenet, if you also post the followup to the list or newsgroup. To reply privately _only_ on Usenet and on broken lists which rewrite From, fetch the TXT record for no-use.mooo.com.
