Hi, actualy, it depends on how your distrib is configured: sometimes, it does nothing, sometimes, it reboots cleanly your computer. There's a file to change but I don't remember which one.
"They were at the wrong place in the worng time. Naturally, they became heroes." Leia Organa of Aldoraan, senator. ----------------------------------------------------- Visit me: http://altern.org/neuromancien/mainpage.htm ----- Original Message ----- From: Lehel Bernadt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <debian-user@lists.debian.org> Sent: Sunday, July 09, 2000 12:33 PM Subject: Re: begone ctrlaltdel! > > On 09-Jul-2000 Ethan Benson wrote: > > On Sat, Jul 08, 2000 at 11:43:44PM -0400, Bob Bernstein wrote: > >> Suppose I want to dis-able the three fingered salute. Is it sufficient to > >> simply comment out this line in /etc/inittab: > >> > >> # What to do when CTRL-ALT-DEL is pressed. > >> ca:12345:ctrlaltdel:/sbin/shutdown -t1 -a -r now > > > > i am uncertain what control-alt-delete will do if you comment this > > out, it might revert to DOS/Windows behaviour of rebooting the machine > > uncleanly... > > No, it certainly won't. When this line is commented out, ctr-alt-del does > nothing. > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > >