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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!uunet!in1.uu.net!134.48.1.77!sol.net!spool.mu.edu!newsspool.sol.net!howland.erols.net!news.maxwell.syr.edu!news.he.net!rtd.com!dgy From: dgy@rtd.com (Don Yuniskis) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Powering Down Date: 13 Jul 1997 05:23:30 GMT Organization: CICDO Lines: 14 Message-ID: <5q9ooi$3hk@baygull.rtd.com> References: <33c49208.1255785@news.dixonssurgical.co.uk> <5q8h0b$kce$1@news1.sympatico.ca> NNTP-Posting-Host: seagull.rtd.com Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:44335 In article <5q8h0b$kce$1@news1.sympatico.ca>, Gardner Buchanan <gbuchanan@on.sympatico.ca> wrote: [snip] >I don't like the Ctrl-Alt-Del keyboard mapping. Instead I have an >entry like this in my /etc/passwd table. This way I can type >"halt" at the login prompt, give the password and get what I want. > > halt:*:0:0:Superuser:/root:/sbin/halt Huh??? This won't help you when in single user mode (no login prompt). And, in multiuser mode, it's rather inelegant (to say the least)... Perhaps a nice little ShutDown.sh script instead...