Although I haven't tried it, you might just comment out the
ctrl-alt-del action in the inittab file (/etc/inittab).
Bill
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael R. Batchelor [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Monday, March 22, 1999 9:28 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: [newbie] Ctrl-Alt-Del disable
>
>
> Not exactly a Mandrake specific question, but there's lots of
> good advice here.
>
> We've just moved one of our servers from WinNT to Mandrake 5.3 this
> weekend. No problems with desktop's etc., since the machine
> is basically
> just a big file and print server. However, what we've
> discovered is that
> *EVERYBODY* is used to walking up to the server bank and punching the
> Ctrl-Alt-Del combination to get a prompt on the screen.
> That's fine for the
> servers which are still NT boxes, but this Linux box proceeds
> to reboot,
> causing problems for everyone.
>
> I looked over the man pages for reboot and ctrlaltdel, but
> didn't see an
> obvious way to disable the default behavior. It seems the
> only choices are
> a hard reboot or a soft reboot, but no choice to disable
> rebooting? What am
> I missing?
>
> Michael
> --
> Michael R. Batchelor
> Industrial Informatics & Instrumentation, Inc.
>
