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Date:      Sat, 18 Oct 2008 01:10:48 -0700
From:      Jeremy Chadwick <koitsu@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Manolis Kiagias <sonic2000gr@gmail.com>
Cc:        Olivier Nicole <on@cs.ait.ac.th>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Peter Boosten <peter@boosten.org>
Subject:   Re: Disable CTRL-ALT-DEL
Message-ID:  <20081018081048.GA43067@icarus.home.lan>
In-Reply-To: <48F99725.2030409@gmail.com>
References:  <200810180545.m9I5jY45021678@banyan.cs.ait.ac.th> <48F97D7A.5010303@gmail.com> <48F994A7.8060901@boosten.org> <48F99725.2030409@gmail.com>

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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

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