From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Dec 3 12:57:20 1995 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id MAA23508 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 3 Dec 1995 12:57:20 -0800 Received: from rocky.sri.MT.net (rocky.sri.MT.net [204.182.243.10]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id MAA23502 for ; Sun, 3 Dec 1995 12:57:15 -0800 Received: (from nate@localhost) by rocky.sri.MT.net (8.6.12/8.6.12) id NAA01050; Sun, 3 Dec 1995 13:59:36 -0700 Date: Sun, 3 Dec 1995 13:59:36 -0700 From: Nate Williams Message-Id: <199512032059.NAA01050@rocky.sri.MT.net> To: John Goerzen Cc: Michael Jamet , wlclarke@cats.ucsc.edu, FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: USR modem setup [ How to setup auto answer ] In-Reply-To: References: Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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. 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 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