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Date:      Wed, 13 Oct 2004 01:12:55 +0930
From:      Malcolm Kay <malcolm.kay@internode.on.net>
To:        ceo@l-i-e.com
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: stdout/stderr/???
Message-ID:  <200410130112.55927.malcolm.kay@internode.on.net>
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On Mon, 11 Oct 2004 06:31 am, Richard Lynch wrote:
> Malcolm Kay wrote:
...
> > The CTRL-ALT-F2 hopefully gets you a character mode tty with a login
> > prompt.
> > But you'll need to login to proceed. CTRL-ALT-DELETE at this stage should
> > cause a reboot.
>
> ctrl-alt-delete does absolutely nothing, though perhaps if I held it down
> long enough to catch a time-slice (or interrupt or whatever) it *MIGHT*
> re-boot.  Probably not much better than cold power loss, though, right?

In normal situation CTRL-ALT-DELETE in a character mode terminal reboots
preceded by a clean shutdown.

Malcolm



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