-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, 25 Nov 2001, Bill Hartwell wrote:
>On Sunday 25 November 2001 10:27 pm, Redhat mailing list wrote: >> What I mean is normally shutdown, sorry i 4got to clear this. I have two >> OS running on my machine, >> one is >> windows 2000 and the other is linux. when I'm running windows and press >> my power switch, the windows OS normaly shutdowns, not just turning the >> power off. Im thinking if this could be made in linux....pressing power >> switch and sends a "shutdown -h now" like command... > >That's one interesting machine you have. I know about binding ctrl-alt-del to >the shutdown command, but normally a power switch is directly linked to the >power supply, and therefore hitting that switch simply kills your power. A >machine that can be set up to do a normal shutdown by hitting the power >switch would make a LOT of people very happy. It's too bad he's not running gdm or kdm. Both of these have a shutdown command on the login screen. Just clickt he shutdown, turn off the monitor, and walk away. It's just as fast and easy as reaching for the power button. When the OS is finished shutting down, it sends a signal to the motherboard and the power supply is turned off. Tony - -- Anthony E. Greene <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://www.pobox.com/~agreene/> PGP Key: 0x6C94239D/7B3D BD7D 7D91 1B44 BA26 C484 A42A 60DD 6C94 239D Chat: AOL/Yahoo: TonyG05 Linux. The choice of a GNU generation <http://www.linux.org/> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Anthony E. Greene <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 0x6C94239D iD8DBQE8AfEupCpg3WyUI50RAm7PAKDYT/fN1KXEbmbC6wHN4DcUaHUtxQCgnxzv 6155WmnYUDydVn1Uyy2TlvU= =sKOB -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
