Your responses are correct and inittab looks OK (from memory)...

Is it not working?  The first time you will need to restart the init
process.  I don't recall the exact syntax, but it should be in the
archive.

On Mon, 2004-04-26 at 15:32, Nick Laflamme wrote:
> I'm back for my monthly efforts to get SIGNAL SHUTDOWN support in a
> SLES8 image working under VM. In the month since I last beat my head
> against this particular wall, I've made sure this image has the latest
> and greatest patches on it. It's at SP 3 and some other fixes released
> by SuSE, 2.4.21-107-default, according to uname -r.
>
> Is there any sort of verification tool for /etc/inittab to rule out any
> manner of stupid typos, bad assumptions, and other faults?
>
> What kinds of log messages does one see when a SIGNAL SHUTDOWN is
> correctly caught? I see single lines in /var/log/messages and
> /var/log/warn that
>
> (date) (time) (systemname) "kernel: CAD: Sending SIGNINT to PID 1..."
>
> I can't tell if I should expect more than that or if that itself is a
> warning.
>
> I know I've asked about this before on this list, and several of you
> have repeated the syntax for /etc/inittab, typically:
>
> ca:12345:ctrlaltdel:/sbin/shutdown -h now
>
>
> Given that I seem to have that right and seem to be at a current-enough
> (too current?) level of SLES 8, what else do I look for?
>
> Thanks,
> Nick
>
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