Date: Sun, 3 Dec 1995 13:59:36 -0700 From: Nate Williams <nate@rocky.sri.MT.net> To: John Goerzen <jgoerzen@complete.org> Cc: Michael Jamet <mjamet@panix.com>, wlclarke@cats.ucsc.edu, FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: USR modem setup [ How to setup auto answer ] Message-ID: <199512032059.NAA01050@rocky.sri.MT.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.951202220540.4729D-100000@complete.org> References: <Pine.SUN.3.91.951201141300.14482C-100000@panix2.panix.com> <Pine.BSF.3.91.951202220540.4729D-100000@complete.org>
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John Goerzen writes: > > PS How do you ctl-alt-del from FreeBSD? > > NEVER, NEVER, NEVER use ctrl-alt-del from within any OS other than DOS. > That includes FreeBSD. NEVER use ctrl-alt-del from within FreeBSD. > > To reboot, login as root and type: > > shutdown -r now > > Rebooting with ctrl-alt-del can corrupt your filesystems and cause data > loss. Sorry for yelling, but this is a very important point. BZZT. Thanks for playing, but you're wrong. <CTL><ALT><DEL> means nothing to *any* OS unless the OS allows does something special with that sequence of keys. In FreeBSD, it used to mean absolutely nothing until I added the ability for it to reboot the system in the same manner as people were used to under DOS/Windows. When you press <CTL><ALT><DEL> in FreeBSD you are basically doing the same thing as a 'shutdown -h now'. No disk corruption, no data loss. Now, whether or not you think it's a good thing to have is up to you, but you can safely do it under FreeBSD. However, you can't do it inside of X unless you patch the X-Server to pass the keystrokes to the kernel, which is actually a pretty trivial patch, but it isn't done by default. Read the man pages on syscons, kbdmap, and kbdcontrol for more information. Nate
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