On Friday, August 07, 2015 05:06:14 PM Gregory Nowak wrote:
> 2. I want ctrl+alt+del to do shutdown -h, instead of shutdown -r > (another real use case on another virtual system). I couldn't figure > out a way to do this in debian jessie. > > Now, what you proposed above from what I understand should work for my > first example. The admin would do something like tty1.agetty stop, > followed by tty1.agetty disable. Nice, simpler then open inittab in an > editor, and commenting out lines, followed by telinit q. However, I > don't see how your proposal above would deal with defining what > ctrl+alt+del does per my second example. Handling such events isn't > as simple as starting/stopping a daemon with a universal init > script. Since you mentioned getting rid of most of inittab but not all > of it, would ctrl+alt+del be one of the things you envision inittab > still being useful for? > Greg, I am just curious, but did you try installing sysvinit and systemd-shim? Theoretically, it should give you System 5 startup and shutdown, while keeping compatibility with things that depend on systemd, like Gnome. I haven't actually looked if it installs an old fashioned Debian inittab, but it might be worth a shot. T.J. _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
