Date: Sat, 16 Dec 1995 10:26:23 -0700 From: Nate Williams <nate@rocky.sri.MT.net> To: Heikki Suonsivu <hsu@clinet.fi> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: todays -current Message-ID: <199512161726.KAA19800@rocky.sri.MT.net> In-Reply-To: <199512161606.SAA03529@katiska.clinet.fi> References: <199512161606.SAA03529@katiska.clinet.fi>
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> > BTW, I would like to get ctrl-alt-del to shutdown the machine cleanly for > problems like this to avoid fsck on next boot, should this be possible? We > use pcvt, if that matters. First of all, I don't think the current pcvt sources don't have the ability to shutdown the system using <CTL><ALT><DEL>, although it should be trivial to add. Second, if the system isn't even running, you won't be able to shut it down using <CTL><ALT><DEL> very well since it was originally designed to shutdown a normally running system, and not one that is completely messed up. When things go wrong like you're seeing, it may not even work correctly. But, it you want to add the shutdown functionality to pcvt, look at the code that calls 'shutdown_nice()' in syscons and add it to pcvt. Nate
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