On 2013-06-17 11:38, Mark Wallace wrote:
I some how got on a sucker list and people who sound like they are in
India
keep asking me to hit "control, Alt, delete" They get very confused when
I
do and nothing happens.
Actually on Linux systems this is settable (you can also make
ctrl-alt-delete
do something else if you want); have a look in /etc/inittab. On Debian this
standard "three finger salute" combination actually /does/ reboot the
system,
because by default /etc/inittab contains this:
# What to do when CTRL-ALT-DEL is pressed.
ca:12345:ctrlaltdel:/sbin/shutdown -t1 -a -r now
I've gotten a couple of calls from India for "helping" me with "Windows"
too.
Seems pretty desperate to be cold-calling random phone numbers like this.
Usually the calls I get have such garbled English that it's not even worth
trying to "mess with them" any. [And I have better things to do. :-P]
--
Chris Knadle
[email protected]
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