On Fri, Jul 30, 2004 at 10:29:57AM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote:
> on Thu, Jul 29, 2004 at 04:22:03PM -0700, Alvin Oga ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> > 
> > hi ya
> > 
> > On Fri, 30 Jul 2004, csj wrote:
> > 
> > > > - 3-finger salute should always work from any console for anybody
> > > > 
> > > > - anybody that hits the power or reset switch should be shot on the spot
> > > >   :-)
> > > 
> > > But as another poster said the buttons could be remapped to
> > > initiate a graceful shutdown.
> > 
> > 3-finger salute is already a graceful shutdown ( init 6 )

Yep.  We can remap to "shutdown -h now" or "shutdown -r now" thru
/etc/inittab as we know.

> Not from X.  Which is where most users will find themselves.  And for
> n00bs, the concept of switching to a console first will be foreign.

Yes, I noticed on my sid.  It used to work though.

So double 3-finger salutes always works :)
  ALT-CTRL-F1
  ALT-CTRL-DEL


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