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Date:      Thu, 26 Feb 1998 15:17:29 +0000 (GMT)
From:      Jose Marques <jose@dial.pipex.com>
To:        Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
Cc:        FreeBSD-mobile <freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Ctrl-Alt-Delete 
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980226151336.11814A-100000@lost.dial.pipex.com>
In-Reply-To: <199802260838.AAA23197@dingo.cdrom.com>

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On Thu, 26 Feb 1998, Mike Smith wrote:
> > I was wondering ... is it possible to modify the behaviour of
> > control-alt-delete (or some other keystroke combination) to put the machine
> > to sleep instead of rebooting it?  My PowerBook has this and it's a very
> > useful feature.
> 
> Anything is possible.  8)

Only if you have an infinite number of monkeys.
 
> Is there a reason that typing 'zzz' at a prompt is not good enough?

You have to be logged in.  Ok, I can setup a sleep userid but it just
seems easier to have a universal hot key for this.

I've been looking round the syscons files in the kernal source but so far
have no idea where cntrl-alt-delete gets handled (hint - I'm a crap C
programmer). If somebody can point me at a file to look at I would be very
grateful.

> -- 
> \\  Sometimes you're ahead,       \\  Mike Smith
[Snip]

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Jose Marques <jose@dial.pipex.com>



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