From owner-freebsd-current Sat Dec 16 10:51:55 1995 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id KAA23529 for current-outgoing; Sat, 16 Dec 1995 10:51:55 -0800 (PST) Received: from godzilla.zeta.org.au (godzilla.zeta.org.au [203.2.228.19]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id KAA23518 for ; Sat, 16 Dec 1995 10:51:51 -0800 (PST) Received: (from bde@localhost) by godzilla.zeta.org.au (8.6.9/8.6.9) id FAA06955; Sun, 17 Dec 1995 05:46:28 +1100 Date: Sun, 17 Dec 1995 05:46:28 +1100 From: Bruce Evans Message-Id: <199512161846.FAA06955@godzilla.zeta.org.au> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, hsu@clinet.fi Subject: Re: todays -current Sender: owner-current@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk >Current supped today bombed at boot with loads of "Oops not queued" >messages, and all programs dumped core as soon as they started, including >gettys on console ports, with various SCSI error messages. Two ncr SCSI >... >BTW, I would like to get ctrl-alt-del to shutdown the machine cleanly for >problems like this to avoid fsck on next boot, should this be possible? We >use pcvt, if that matters. Don't use pcvt. Shutdown by ctrl-alt-del is standard in syscons. It works iff the system is in user mode if init is running and shutdown is runnable. Bruce