hmmm interesting discussion. but, the three finger salute was place there
for a very good reason. in case of blasted emergencies, you will always
have the means to restart a system gone hairy. many times have i
experience errors most of them hardware related that the console freezes
and network connections are dropped. the three finger salute is still
the best way of recovering from such failures.
my $0.03
On Tue, 12 Jun 2001, eric pareja wrote:
> On Mon, 11 Jun 2001, neuroticimbecile wrote:
>
> > > > on debian it's been modified slightly to read:
> > > >
> > > > ca:12345:ctrlaltdel:/sbin/shutdown -t1 -a -r now
> > > >
> > > > of course, you could do some other fancy thing with this if you like.
> >
> > i just wanted to add that on one of the servers i used to care for,
> > it read something like:
> >
> > ca::ctrlaltdel:/bin/echo -e \\a three finger salute ignored.
>
> essentially it hasn't been ignored. echo was called to display that
> response. if you truly want it to be ignored, edit kernel/sys.c
> appropriately to ignore the ctrl-alt-del combo, recompile and you have a
> ctrl-alt-del ignorant kernel.
>
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