Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!dimacs.rutgers.edu!seismo!uunet!samsung!caen!uwm.edu!src.honeywell.com!vice!pclark From: pclark@SRC.Honeywell.COM (Peter Clark) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: Power Switch Disabling? Message-ID: <1991Mar1.195417.2037@src.honeywell.com> Date: 1 Mar 91 19:54:17 GMT References: <27CC7E58.342F@ibma0.cs.uiuc.edu> <1991Feb28.231454.20522@src.honeywell.com> <1991Mar1.144246.24584@news.stolaf.edu> Sender: news@src.honeywell.com (News interface) Distribution: usa Organization: Honeywell Systems & Research Center Lines: 8 In-Reply-To: rabe@beowulf.acc.stolaf.edu's message of Fri, 1 Mar 1991 14:42:46 GM Nntp-Posting-Host: vice.src.honeywell.com >A (perhaps) better way to do it would be to add the -PowerOffDisabled True flag >to loginwindow in your /etc/ttys file. Then you wouldn't have to dwrite every >time your machine is rebooted. Here's about what your console entry would I think the two methods are probably equivalent. I've never had to do the dwrite more than once- it's preserved across reboots. Pete