Date: Thu, 28 May 1998 07:49:01 -0400 (EDT) From: Spidey <beaupran@JSP.UMontreal.CA> To: Question=answer <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: FreeBSD Newbie Question (fwd) Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980528074237.6069B-100000@outpost.nada.org> In-Reply-To: <19980527230156429.AAA104@mail.nordicdms.com>
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Hmmm, about keymaps, I got a wierd thing happening sometimes in pine...
After the header, before the message, I get the notice:
[The following text is in the "ISO-8859-1" character set]
[Your display is set for the "US-ASCII" character set]
[Some characters may be displayed incorrectly]
However, my screenmap is set to:
keymap="us.iso" # keymap in /usr/share/syscons/keymaps/* (or NO).
scrnmap="iso-8859-1_to_cp437" # screen map in /usr/share/syscons/scrnm
Is my display set to iso-8859? How can I change it?
Thanks
Spidey
On Wed, 27 May 1998, Dave Walton wrote:
> On 27 May 98 at 13:41, Annelise Anderson wrote:
>
> > This person wants to disable the Ctrl-Alt-Delete equivalence to
> > reboot, and I looked in the handbook and the mail archives and
> > I can't figure out how to do it. We will both find your answer
> > of interest--(all I found was Terry Lambert saying it didn't
> > matter anyway because there's always the big red button).
>
> I've seen that comment, too, and have to disagree with it. Disabling
> that function may not do much to prevent malicious reboots, but it
> sure helps prevent accidental reboots. We have a lot of NT machines
> around here, and "Press Ctrl-Alt-Del to log in" can be very
> habit-forming...
>
> Here's how to do it:
>
> Run /stand/sysinstall, select option 3 ("Keymap"), and select
> whatever keyboard mapping is appropriate for your locale. For
> example, if you want a standard US keyboard mapping, select the last
> item on the list, "United States ISO keymap".
>
> Once you've made your selection, exit sysinstall and:
>
> grep keymap /etc/rc.conf
>
> You will see something like this:
>
> keymap="us.iso" # keymap in /usr/share/syscons/keymaps/* (or NO).
>
> Now you need to edit the <keymap>.kbd file. For our example, that
> means /usr/share/syscons/keymaps/us.iso.kbd needs editing. In that
> file, replace every instance of the word "boot" with "nop". (In the
> us.iso file, "boot" appears three times.)
>
> Once you've made that change, reboot and you're done.
>
> Dave
>
>
>
>
>
> >
> > --Annelise
> >
> > ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> > Date: Tue, 26 May 1998 13:44:06 +0800
> > From: Mohammad Rizal Othman <rizal@mimos.my>
> > To: andrsn@andrsn.stanford.edu
> > Subject: FreeBSD Newbie Question
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > First, please accept my apology for asking this
> > question directly to you...
> >
> > I've just read your tutorial for new users of
> > FreeBSD. It was an excellent article. However,
> > being a long time user of Linux, I've found
> > something that I cannot easily do on FreeBSD that
> > I took for granted on Linux. On Linux, there is
> > this runlevel thing and a file which you can
> > edit. As with FreeBSD, you can reboot a Linux box
> > by pressing Control-Alt-Delete buttons
> > simultaneously. This can be turned off easily on
> > Linux by editing a file in /etc. But I cannot do
> > the same thing on FreeBSD. I've read the FAQ and
> > it mentions of editing a file in
> > /usr/share/syscons/keymaps/. I searched for any
> > occurences of "rbt" but didn't find any. I guess
> > I'm using us.key since that is what appear in my
> > /etc/rc.conf.
> >
> > Please help me solving this problem. Except for
> > this "feature" I'm beginning to like FreeBSD :)
> >
> >
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Spidey
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