From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Aug 5 18:11:55 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mail.viasoft.com.cn (unknown [61.153.1.177]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6BEEE37B43B for ; Sun, 5 Aug 2001 18:11:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from davidx@viasoft.com.cn) Received: from William ([192.168.1.98]) by mail.viasoft.com.cn (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id JAA30451; Mon, 6 Aug 2001 09:14:11 +0800 Message-Id: <200108060114.JAA30451@mail.viasoft.com.cn> Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2001 9:16:13 +0800 From: David Xu To: "Brad Laue Cc: " <" Subject: X-mailer: FoxMail 3.11 Release [cn] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="GB2312" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Sorry, but why do you think many sysctls are designed for change them frequently? add a sysctl to system is a more convenience way. this is an old topic, I don't want to say more. there was already in mail list archive. -- David Xu ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kazutaka YOKOTA" To: "Brad Laue" Cc: "Dima Dorfman" ; "Kris Kennaway" ; "Pascal Pederiva" ; ; Sent: Sunday, August 05, 2001 12:02 PM Subject: Re: PATCH: syscons.c sysctl for PC-Reboot Keys > AFAIR, yes. > > I don't see much need to add a sysctl for this, because I cannot > imagine in what situation you want to turn on and off the reboot key > on the fly. The system administrator wants to disable the reboot key > entirely, or leave it enabled. > > But, if many people say they need it, perhaps we should add it... > > Kazu > > >Something which I do on my home systems to prevent an accidental reboot - > >the kernel option for that is quite helpful. > > > >Was a solution such as a sysctl discussed previously? > > > >// -- http://www.BRAD-X.com/ -- // > > > >On Sun, 5 Aug 2001, Kazutaka YOKOTA wrote: > > > >> >Kris Kennaway writes: > >> > >> This was discussed before. Some people want to disable the reboot key > >> combinataion PERMANENTLY. > >> > >> The keymap can be changed by anyone who has access to one of vtys, > >> thus, some adminisrator worry that the user might just reload his own > >> keymap and will be able to reboot the machine. > >> > >> Kazu > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message