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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!agate!ihnp4.ucsd.edu!swrinde!sgiblab!sgigate.sgi.com!olivea!grapevine.lcs.mit.edu!ginger.lcs.mit.edu!wollman From: wollman@ginger.lcs.mit.edu (Garrett Wollman) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc Subject: Re: FreeBSD and the <CTL-ALT-DEL> key Date: 6 Mar 1994 16:28:18 GMT Organization: MIT Laboratory for Computer Science Lines: 29 Message-ID: <2ld0b2$jl6@GRAPEVINE.LCS.MIT.EDU> References: <1994Mar6.092836.5938@gold.muc.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: ginger.lcs.mit.edu In article <1994Mar6.092836.5938@gold.muc.de>, Christian Seyb <cs@gold.muc.de> wrote: >I just installed FreeBSD and realized, that the <clt-alt-del> combination >reboots the system. This seems a little strange to me. In 1.1, this will send a signal to `init' and cause the machine to shut itself down nicely. >As I don't like this behaviour, I commented this out in syscons.c. Are >there any side effects to this? No. You should probably get the `syscons' utility (look in the packages directory on wcarchive), which you can use to re-define your keymaps on the fly, without installing a new kernel. >Is there any (easy) way to install FreeBSD on the second disk? It took >me quite a bit to get a working system with Linux on the first and >FreeBSD on the second disk booting with LILO. None as yet. We'd like to have this working... -GAWollman -- Garrett A. Wollman | Shashish is simple, it's discreet, it's brief. ... wollman@lcs.mit.edu | Shashish is the bonding of hearts in spite of distance. formerly known as | It is a bond more powerful than absence. We like people wollman@emba.uvm.edu | who like Shashish. - Claude McKenzie + Florent Vollant