Date: Tue, 29 May 2001 09:53:57 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org> To: "Christopher W. Aiken" <cwaiken@icubed.com> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: Ctrl-Alt-Del once again Message-ID: <20010529095357.C54034@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <20010528162149.K256-100000@bigdaddy.localdomain>; from cwaiken@icubed.com on Mon, May 28, 2001 at 04:29:16PM -0400 References: <20010528111406.U29739@wantadilla.lemis.com> <20010528162149.K256-100000@bigdaddy.localdomain>
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On Monday, 28 May 2001 at 16:29:16 -0400, Christopher W. Aiken wrote:
>
> On Mon, 28 May 2001, Greg Lehey wrote:
>
>>> On Sunday, 27 May 2001 at 21:30:23 -0400, Christopher W. Aiken wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I'd like to setup Ctrl-Alt-Del to do a "halt" instead
>>>> of re-boot. Searching the archives I found a snipit
>>>> that indicated that the following command should do it:
>>>>
>
> <SNIP>
>
>>>
>>> Yes. Assuming you're using the standard keyboard map
>>> (/usr/share/syscons/keymaps/us.iso.kbd), make a copy with an
>>> appropriate name and change the following line:
>>>
>>> Before:
>>>
>>> 083 del '.' '.' '.' '.' '.' boot boot N
>>>
>>> After:
>>>
>>> 083 del '.' '.' '.' '.' '.' halt halt N
>>>
>>> This is described in the man page kbdmap(5), which was only written a
>>> few months ago.
>
> Nope, Doesn't work. I copied us.iso.kbd to us.iso.kbd_cwa. I made
> the above changes to keycode 083. I then added "keymap=us.iso.kbd_cwa"
> to my /etc/rc.conf file. Finally I re-booted.
You shouldn't reboot for something so trivial. Just run kbdcontrol.
> When my system came back up I hit Ctrl-Alt-Del expecting a "halt" to
> be performed. Instead a "reboot" occurred, just as though I had
> done nothing to the keymap file.
>
> Is there a way to determine if us.iso.kbd_cwa is even used? man kbdmap
> shows nothing,
How about this:
-d Dump the current keyboard map onto stdout. The output may be
redirected to a file and can be loaded back to the kernel later
by the -l option above.
> and I could find nothing in dmesg.
No, you wouldn't.
Greg
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