From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Oct 18 08:10:52 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 42C5E1065688 for ; Sat, 18 Oct 2008 08:10:52 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jdc@koitsu.dyndns.org) Received: from QMTA04.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net (qmta04.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net [76.96.62.40]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DF0498FC21 for ; Sat, 18 Oct 2008 08:10:50 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jdc@koitsu.dyndns.org) Received: from OMTA01.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net ([76.96.62.11]) by QMTA04.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net with comcast id U8Aq1a00C0EZKEL548AqZJ; Sat, 18 Oct 2008 08:10:50 +0000 Received: from koitsu.dyndns.org ([69.181.141.110]) by OMTA01.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net with comcast id U8Ao1a0032P6wsM3M8ApuD; Sat, 18 Oct 2008 08:10:50 +0000 X-Authority-Analysis: v=1.0 c=1 a=6I5d2MoRAAAA:8 a=QycZ5dHgAAAA:8 a=DHG-u4E7lr9wYuG7BW8A:9 a=yKSHOIw4mD0DXQrvlMIA:7 a=YPB3BIojwPuoURwprjwJmk2imz8A:4 a=EoioJ0NPDVgA:10 a=LY0hPdMaydYA:10 Received: by icarus.home.lan (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 8332AC9432; Sat, 18 Oct 2008 01:10:48 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sat, 18 Oct 2008 01:10:48 -0700 From: Jeremy Chadwick To: Manolis Kiagias Message-ID: <20081018081048.GA43067@icarus.home.lan> References: <200810180545.m9I5jY45021678@banyan.cs.ait.ac.th> <48F97D7A.5010303@gmail.com> <48F994A7.8060901@boosten.org> <48F99725.2030409@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <48F99725.2030409@gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) Cc: Olivier Nicole , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Peter Boosten Subject: Re: Disable CTRL-ALT-DEL X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 18 Oct 2008 08:10:52 -0000 On Sat, Oct 18, 2008 at 10:58:29AM +0300, Manolis Kiagias wrote: > Peter Boosten wrote: >> Manolis Kiagias wrote: >> >>> Olivier Nicole wrote: >>> >>>> Hi, >>>> >>>> On FreeBSD 6.3 how to disable the CTRL-ALT-DEL from halting/rebooting >>>> the system? >>>> >>>> Best regards, >>>> >>>> Olivier >>>> >>> There are two ways of doing this, both described in the FreeBSD FAQ here: >>> >>> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/admin.html#CAD-REBOOT >>> >> >> Hmmm, didn't know about the second one, and doesn't seem to be working >> either (on both 7.0 and 6.3): >> >> sysctl hw.syscons.kbd_reboot=0 >> sysctl: unknown oid 'hw.syscons.kbd_reboot' >> >> >> Peter >> > It seems you are right. Just checked on 6.3 and 7.0 and it does not > exist. It does exist in 6.2, however. Hmm... # sysctl hw.syscons.kbd_reboot=0 hw.syscons.kbd_reboot: 1 -> 0 # sysctl hw.syscons.kbd_reboot=1 hw.syscons.kbd_reboot: 0 -> 1 # uname -a FreeBSD icarus.home.lan 7.1-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 7.1-PRERELEASE #0: Thu Oct 2 03:04:20 PDT 2008 root@icarus.home.lan:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/PDSMI_PLUS_RELENG_7_amd64 amd64 -- | Jeremy Chadwick jdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP: 4BD6C0CB |