Sorry, but why do you think many sysctls are designed for change them frequently? add a sysctl to system is a more convenience way. this is an old topic, I don't want to say more. there was already in mail list archive. -- David Xu ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kazutaka YOKOTA" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Brad Laue" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "Dima Dorfman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Kris Kennaway" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Pascal Pederiva" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, August 05, 2001 12:02 PM Subject: Re: PATCH: syscons.c sysctl for PC-Reboot Keys > AFAIR, yes. > > I don't see much need to add a sysctl for this, because I cannot > imagine in what situation you want to turn on and off the reboot key > on the fly. The system administrator wants to disable the reboot key > entirely, or leave it enabled. > > But, if many people say they need it, perhaps we should add it... > > Kazu > > >Something which I do on my home systems to prevent an accidental reboot - > >the kernel option for that is quite helpful. > > > >Was a solution such as a sysctl discussed previously? > > > >// -- http://www.BRAD-X.com/ -- // > > > >On Sun, 5 Aug 2001, Kazutaka YOKOTA wrote: > > > >> >Kris Kennaway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> > >> This was discussed before. Some people want to disable the reboot key > >> combinataion PERMANENTLY. > >> > >> The keymap can be changed by anyone who has access to one of vtys, > >> thus, some adminisrator worry that the user might just reload his own > >> keymap and will be able to reboot the machine. > >> > >> Kazu > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
