Ctrl+Alt+Delete

Micheas Herman micheas at freep.org
Fri Jan 30 00:15:11 PST 2004


On Thu, 2004-01-29 at 20:14, Cordula's Web wrote:
> > Does anyone on the list know what Ctrl+Alt+Delete does on a running FreeBSD 
> > machine?
> 
> Normally it calls reboot(8).
> 
> But since this is a function of the syscons(4) driver,
> you can disable (accidental) reboots by setting
> 
>      SC_DISABLE_REBOOT
>             This option disables the ``reboot'' key (by default, it is
>             Ctl-Alt-Del), so that the casual user may not accidentally reboot
>             the system.
> 
> in the kernel config file (great for unattended, publicly
> accessible machines!).

Does this work on both 5.x and 4.x?

Thanks,


Micheas
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