have a look at your /etc/inittab
you want to comment a line that says :

ca:12345:ctrlaltdel:/sbin/shutdown -t1 -a -r now

Viet

David Carson wrote:
> 
> How do I disable CTRL-C being picked up during boot up? Press CTRL-C
> a few times whilst the machine is booting. At the point the kernel
> attempts to start the system daemons, messages such as the following
> appear:
> 
> touch: /var/lock/subsys/network: No such file or directory
> touch: /var/run/random-seed: No such file or directory
> chmod: /var/run/random-seed: No such file or directory
> touch: /var/lock/subsys/random: No such file or directory
> 
> Starting cron daemon:
> execvp: No such file or directory
> 
> touch /var/lock/subsys/crond: No such file or directory
> 
> Starting gpm mouse services:
> execvp: No such file or directory
> 
> touch: /var/lock/subsys/gpm: No such file or directory
> 
> INIT: Id "1" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes
> INIT: no more processes left in this runlevel
> INIT: Id "1" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes
> 
> Release that obvious fix is not to type CTRL-C as machine
> is booting. However, I cannot prevent inquisitive users
> from doing this!
> 
> Kernel in use is RedHat Linux 6.0 release 2.2.5-22.
> 
> Any help is very much appreciated. Thank you in advance.
> 
> Kind Regards,
> 
> David Carson
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