A key combination of [Ctrl]+[c] performed in pts terminal invokes ctrl-alt-del.target; resulting in a server reboot.

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Issue

  • A key combination of [Ctrl]+[c] performed in pts terminal invokes ctrl-alt-del.target; resulting in a server reboot.

  • create script

# cat /tmp/sadc_loop.sh 
while true;do
  sar 10 2 -u -P ALL -r -n DEV
done
  • execute
# /tmp/sadc_loop.sh
  • press ^C often

  • ctrl-alt-del.target is invoked and the server reboots.

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.2
  • sysstat-10.1.5-7.el7.x86_64

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