1 .\" Copyright 1992, 1993 Rickard E. Faith (faith@cs.unc.edu)
2 .\" May be distributed under the GNU General Public License
3 .TH CTRLALTDEL 8 "25 October 1993" "Linux 1.2" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
5 ctrlaltdel \- set the function of the Ctrl-Alt-Del combination
7 .BR "ctrlaltdel hard" | soft
9 Based on examination of the
11 code, it is clear that there are two supported functions that the
12 Ctrl-Alt-Del sequence can perform: a
14 reset, which immediately reboots the computer without calling
16 and without any other preparation; and a
18 reset, which sends the SIGINT (interrupt) signal to the
20 process (this is always the process with PID 1). If this option is used,
23 program must support this feature. Since there are now several
25 programs in the Linux community, please consult the documentation for the
26 version that you are currently using.
29 is usually used in the
38 Peter Orbaek (poe@daimi.aau.dk)
40 The ctrlaltdel command is part of the util-linux-ng package and is available from
41 ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux-ng/.