On April 21, 2004 14:24, Kaj Haulrich wrote: > On Wednesday 21 April 2004 21:40, Ron Hunter-Duvar wrote: > > <snip> > > > Is there a Mandrake equivalent to Ctrl-Alt-Del, which on Windoze > > 2K usually at least allows me to gain enough control to do a > > clean shutdown (I'm not a Windoze fan, my employer makes me use > > it, I just like to have that particular feature available). > > </snip> > > Depending on your setting in /etc/inittab the "Windows-salute" > should initiate a clean shutdown or reboot. But, honestly, this is > hardly ever needed in linux.
I haven't touched my inittab, just whatever 10.0 CE has by default. I see these lines in there: # Trap CTRL-ALT-DELETE ca::ctrlaltdel:/sbin/shutdown -t3 -r now Looks like what you're talking about. But I tried it before (out of habit), and it did nothing. Just tried it again, and all it did was log me out. > In case of a "hanging" application (in KDE) you > can hit <Ctrl + Alt + Esc> then move your cursor (now a skull) to > the offending application and left-click. That's a kill. Sweet. > In case of a "hanging" GUI (X-server), you can hit <Ctrl + Alt + > Backspace>. This kills X and gets you to a new login. > > In case of nothing (exept the keyboard) working, and right before > you consider a hard reset, you have to play a little piano-sonata : > > <Alt> + <SysRq> + r + s + e + i + u + b > > (Mnemotech : Raising Skinny Elephants Is Utterly Boring) > > This sequence performs a clean reboot, including sync. Interesting. I thought I saw the <alt>+<sysrq> somewhere. It didn't do anything for me. I didn't know the rest of the incantation. > HTH > Kaj Haulrich. Problem is I won't remember these the rare times I need them (I'm kind of like Dory in Finding Nemo). I could just hold down <ctrl> and <alt> and hammer randomly on the keyboard :^). I suppose I should write it down. Anyway, thanks for the tips. -- Ron Hunter-Duvar ronhd at users dot sourceforge dot net
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