"Anthony E. Greene" wrote: > -----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. >
I think this is the thing you need. I may look into it myself. We have many keyboard-less machines that we cannont shutdown cleanly if the network freaks for some reason ( one possibility is power failure and dhcp server down for some reason. At least that is the way I read the DHCP from the book. It has not happened yet but I am paranoid). Now if I can just find a dhcp client that meets the RFC and will keep its last ip address if the server is not there for some reason Sigh... Any way I digress as well as probably set myself up for some flames. check out: http://deadlock.et.tudelft.nl/~joris/powerswitch/README.powerswitch Bret _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
