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Date:      Fri, 5 May 1995 16:20:35 -0600
From:      Nate Williams <nate@trout.sri.MT.net>
To:        markh@stack.urc.tue.nl, questions@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: turning off ctrlaltdel
Message-ID:  <199505052220.QAA19824@trout.sri.MT.net>
In-Reply-To: Mark Huizer <xaa@xaa.stack.urc.tue.nl> "turning off ctrlaltdel" (May  5, 11:00pm)

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> Is it possible to turn off the soft reboot after pressing CTRLALTDEL?

Yes.

> I couldn't find any options in the kernel for it, nor the code where it
> is handled :(

It's handled by sending a signal to init.  The code which does it is in
the console driver and in kern/kern_xxx.c.  To remove that functionality
you can either modify your keymap to remove the keymapping
(clean/easiest), or else modify the kernel to ignore that keystroke.


Nate



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