From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 22 15: 8:35 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dt051n0b.san.rr.com (dt051n0b.san.rr.com [204.210.32.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5A20637C327 for ; Wed, 22 Mar 2000 15:08:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Doug@gorean.org) Received: from slave (doug@slave [10.0.0.1]) by dt051n0b.san.rr.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA82797; Wed, 22 Mar 2000 15:08:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Doug@gorean.org) Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2000 15:08:24 -0800 (PST) From: Doug Barton X-Sender: doug@dt051n0b.san.rr.com To: chris@cwaiken.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: New FreeBSD Help Needed In-Reply-To: <20000322194408.26581.cpmta@c017.sfo.cp.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 22 Mar 2000 chris@cwaiken.com wrote: > > Sorry to bother you. As a new FreeBSD user I posted > several questions on comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc that > have gone unanswered, so I thought I would give you a > try. > > 1) My FreeBSD box is up and running 24/7. My wife > knows absolutely nothing about computers. I would like > to set the F12 or Ctrl-Alt-Del key up to do a system > "halt" so that when I'm at the office and we have a > storm in our area, my wife could just press F12 or > Crtl-Alt-Del and safely "halt" my system w/o file > system damage. Can this be easily done? I tried editing > the keyboard file w/o any luck. CAD does a safe reboot now. Just tell her to turn it off when the BIOS screen appears. Your other questions are answered on the web site. Good luck, Doug -- "So, the cows were part of a dream that dreamed itself into existence, is that possible?" The master simply replied, "Mu." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message