Of interest in these situations is the 'SysRq' key as well, especially
for instances that c-a-d won't work, you can still sync and reboot your
machine! For more info look at linux/Documentation/sysrq.txt
On Tue, 12 Jun 2001, Horatio B. Bogbindero wrote:
>
>
> 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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