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Debian Jessie shutdown on CTRL+ALT+DEL

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

shutdown -h now

The old way was editing the inittab file. How is this done now in Debian 8 with systemd?

Solution

  • Just cd into /lib/systemd/system/ and change the symlink of 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 systemd daemon:

    systemctl daemon-reload