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[ILUG] CTRL-ALT-DELETE

[ILUG] CTRL-ALT-DELETE

bobb bobb at redbrick.dcu.ie
Fri Aug 26 20:17:32 IST 2005


bimal  pandit hath declared on Friday the 26 day of August 2005  :-:
 
> # Trap CTRL-ALT-DELETE ca::ctrlaltdel:/sbin/shutdown -t3 -r now

> this means whenever you press ctrl+alt+del key altogether, the system will
> be rebooted fine, now I want to make my own sequence as "ctrl+alt+esc" to
> poweroff the system using "poweroff" command for that, the command is there,

Would the <Alt>+<SysRq>+<o> sequence do what you want ?

May need to do a (S)ync and (U)nmount first... ?

SysRq is generally the same key as PrintScreen.

- bobb

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