[Nottingham] power off
Haber, Michael
michael.haber at ntu.ac.uk
Fri Dec 19 12:19:50 GMT 2003
Thanks all, great stuff!
Mike
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From: Rob Andrews [mailto:rob at impure.org.uk]
Sent: Fri 19/12/2003 12:13 PM
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Subject: Re: [Nottingham] power off
[19-Dec-2003 12:11.12 (GMT) / Jim Driscoll]
> IIRC, there's something you can put in /etc/inittab to make it able to
> shut down when the power button is pressed (plus of course the
> aforementioned APM or ACPI support in the kernel). Have a look, there
> may already be something in there, just commented out.
Loading the ACPI userland helper patches the power button to execute
'init 0', which powers off when the kernel halts.
/etc/acpi/powerbtn.sh in Debian, but other distros may vary.
Gets quite extensively used when I'm in a hurry!
--
n.
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