From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 23 9:41:53 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp.burgoyne.com (email.burgoyne.com [209.197.0.17]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E6EBB37BEC9 for ; Thu, 23 Mar 2000 09:41:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wbs@redrock.net) Received: from lorins (red3-21.redrock.net [209.197.14.152] (may be forged)) by smtp.burgoyne.com (8.9.3/8.9.1) with SMTP id KAA31537; Thu, 23 Mar 2000 10:17:16 -0700 Message-ID: <008701bf94ec$8e414c60$0900fea9@lorins.ild.telecom.com> From: "wbs" To: "Alfred Perlstein" , "Mark Ovens" Cc: "Derrick Baumer" , , Subject: Re: New FreeBSD Help Needed Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2000 10:23:39 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3110.1 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3110.3 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG CTRL-ALT-DEL and then power off when it is in POST. Of couse having the wife who doesn't know computers recognize POST know when to shut it off would take a little training. -----Original Message----- From: Alfred Perlstein To: Mark Ovens Cc: Derrick Baumer ; chris@cwaiken.com ; freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Wednesday, March 22, 2000 5:17 PM Subject: Re: New FreeBSD Help Needed >* Mark Ovens [000322 16:30] wrote: >> On Wed, Mar 22, 2000 at 01:31:48PM -0800, Derrick Baumer 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. >> > >> > Any chance of just giving her the root password and telling her to >> > log in and type "shutdown -h now" when there's a problem? >> >> ``shutdown -r now'' works for ordinary users as well, as long as they >> are members of the wheel group. > >it's 'operator' not 'wheel'. > >-Alfred > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message