On 8 Nov 2002, Chris Barnes wrote: > I hate that...you make sure your machine is up for as long as possible > to be on the top of the ranks on the Linux Counter site, but then you > hit those damned keys. > > It still baffles me why that function is enabled by default on linux. > its the absolute first thing I disable after a new install. It should be > off by default. Thats why most PCs come with reset buttons built into > their case.
Eeep! Hardware reset should be absolute last resort. You want to at least try to unmount your drives first, or you can lose data... :( I will normally change the command to shutdown in 2 minutes. 1) That gives me enough time to cancel it if it was hit accidentally. 2) Ctrl-Alt-Del is still available to try and shutdown cleanly with if something screwey does happen to my system. 3) Ctrl-Alt-Del is still available if I'm feeling lazy and need to reboot. 4) If I _really_ want to shutdown _now_, I can damn well log in and do the command myself. :) Magic sys-rq key is a nice last-resort, too... but it's normally turned off by default. Might not be a good thing to get triggered by dodgey KVM switches. :) > On Thu, 2002-11-07 at 23:21, Yuri wrote: > > :) ehehehe, that reminds of the time i press ctrl-alt-del on what i thought to > > be win2k box and send my linux dns box to reboot that had >250 days of > > precious uptime Ouch. :) -- Jess. (Everything with a grin :) -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
