Re: Ctrl Alt Del does not work

[Walter Worth <wworth prodigy net>]

On Thursday, 2 Jan 03,Ajit Warrier
<unixajit yahoo com> wrote:
> Hi list,
> 
> On my installation of RH8 Ctrl - Alt - Del does not
> work even though my /etc/inittab contains this line:
> 
> # Trap CTRL-ALT-DELETE
> ca::ctrlaltdel:/sbin/shutdown -t3 -r now
> 
> Is there something I should enable first?
> 

This will be lengthy..... if you press Ctrl-Alt-Del
(or whatever key was assigned the keysym Boot by 
loadkeys) then either the machine reboots immediately
(without sync), or init is sent a SIGINT. The former
behaviour is the default. The default can be changed
by root, using the system call reboot(), see
ctrlaltdel(8). Some init's change the default. What
happens when init gets SIGINT depends on the version
of init used - often it will be determined by the pf
entry     in /etc/inittab (which means that you can
run an arbitrary program in this case). In the current
kernel Ctrl-AltGr-Del is no longer by default assigned
to Boot. 

See: http://www.redhat.com, search Linux Keyboard and
combinations. :)

Walter
wworth prodigy net