Shutting down Debian Jessie with CTRL + ALT + DEL

Question

For our Linux VM in VirtualBox, we like to map CTRL+ALT+DEL

to

shutdown -h now

The old way was to edit the file inittab

. How is this done now in Debian 8 using systemd?

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Eugene barker Apr 29. At 22:33

2 answers

Well, maybe a special target with a name ctrl-alt-del.target

. So, as the mailing list says , you can just bind the target, saypoweroff.target

0

Sergey Kanaev Apr 30 15 at 11:02

kevoroid · Accepted Answer · 2015-04-30T13:07:11+0000

Just cd

in /lib/systemd/system/

and change the symbolic link ctrl-alt-del.target

from reboot.target

to poweroff.target

.

ln -s /lib/systemd/system/poweroff.target /etc/systemd/system/ctrl-alt-del.target

then reset the systemd daemon:

systemctl daemon-reload