Michael, > Is the said machine on a KVM switch? is it possible a Windows NT admin has hit > CTRL-ALT-DEL to logon and then realised they had the wrong machine?
No, it's a home office where I'm a sysadmin, a creative director, a project manager and what not :-) One machine is facing the Internet, the other one is a workstation so I'm the only one who presses the kyes around here and unfortunately there's no one to blame when something goes wrong :-) > Just incase, logon to the said machine and edit the following; > > vi /etc/inittab > > find the following lines. > > # What to do when CTRL-ALT-DEL is pressed. > ca:12345:ctrlaltdel:/sbin/shutdown -t1 -a -r now > > now change it to be; > > # What to do when CTRL-ALT-DEL is pressed. > #ca:12345:ctrlaltdel:/sbin/shutdown -t1 -a -r now > > Save the file... then run "init q" > > Now hitting CTRL-ALT-DEL on the local console won't tell the machine to do a > shutdown when the keys are pressed. well, a couple of times a screwed my system quite badly it simply froze, and since I'm always in X Window envioronment 3 finger salute was the only option to reboot, console wasn't accessable either (not that I know a whola lotta things about how to recover with the command promt), so I dunno, I better keep the salute alive :-) until I learn more about the OS -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
