[wplug] 3fingered salute in PeanutLInux

[David G Matthews]

This may seem like an obvious point, but are you logged on as root when
giving the 3-finger salute?  The shutdown command only works as root, and
I'd imagine that Ctrl-Alt-Del is the same way (never tried it as a normal
user).  
-dgm


On Tue, 27 Feb 2001, John-the chicken slayer-Harrold wrote:

> On Tue, 27 Feb 2001, Elwin Green wrote:
> 
> > 
> > Hello all-
> > 
> > Recently installed PeanutLinux on a small partition of what is otherwise a
> > win98 machine. I have it set up so that at boot, Power Quest's Boot Magic
> > allows me to choose win or linux, and from windows I have a desktop icon for
> > rebooting to linux. I would like to be able to reboot from the linux command
> > line with ctrl+alt+del. My inittab contains this entry:
> > 
> > ca::ctrlaltdel:/sbin/shutdown -r now "Ctrl-Alt-Del Shutdown..."
> > 
> > but when I try it, nothing appears to happen.
> > 
> > Any suggestions? Thanks!
> 
> is it possible you have a strange keymap? in other words are you using a
> standard keyboard or are you using something that might map the keys
> differently like a laptop keyboard?
> 
> john
> 
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