Re: Ctrl Alt Del does not work

[Rick Stevens <rstevens vitalstream com>]

Ajit Warrier 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?

Verify that the value in /proc/sys/kernel/ctrl-alt-del is set to
"0".  If not, use either "sysctl kernel.ctrl-alt-del=0" or
"echo 0 >/proc/sys/kernel/ctrl-alt-del" to set it.
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