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From: igor@alecto.physics.uiuc.edu (Igor Roshchin)
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Subject: Re: stopping users from rebooting with ctr-alt-del
To: guido@gvr.win.tue.nl (Guido van Rooij)
Date: Fri, 20 Dec 1996 10:55:21 -0600 (CST)
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In-Reply-To: <199612201629.RAA21703@gvr.win.tue.nl> from "Guido van Rooij" at Dec 20, 96 05:29:54 pm
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> 
> Snob Art Genre wrote:
> > 
> > I think ctrl-alt-del syncs buffers and otherwise shuts down the machine 
> > "nicely".  I may be wrong.
> > 
> 
> You are right. It send a -INT to init. So it is equivalent of shutdown -r.
> 
> 
> -Guido
> 


/me recognizes my mistake.
Thanks to everybody for being patient. :-)

IgoR
aka StR