On Mon, 11 Jun 2001, AB Ramos wrote:
> > The inittab trick will only prevent the user from accidentally doing
> > the three-finger-salute...
>
> It's not a trick. It's a feature(tm)!. BTW, I'm curious as to how
> ctrl-alt-del is handled by other distros. Is it also mapped to a
> command, or is it not handled at all?
it's a kernel function.
in linux/kernel/sys.c, you can define whether you can reboot with
ctrl-alt-del.
most inittabs are patterned after Miquel van Smoorenburg's since he wrote
init. and the handler is basically the same. the default entry for that
being:
ca::ctrlaltdel:/sbin/shutdown -t5 -rf now
on debian it's been modified slightly to read:
ca:12345:ctrlaltdel:/sbin/shutdown -t1 -a -r now
of course, you could do some other fancy thing with this if you like.
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