Re: shutdown without waking up the monitor

2002-09-06 Thread Adam Galant
On Fri, 6 Sep 2002, Suraj Kumar wrote: > hi, > > Geoff Crompton wrote on Fri, Sep 06, 2002 at 08:25:58AM +1000: > geoff> > like at instances where we are maintaining boxen through networks, it > geoff> > just helps when there isn't costly apparels. > geoff> > > > geoff> What about running p

Re: shutdown without waking up the monitor

2002-09-05 Thread Suraj Kumar
hi, Geoff Crompton wrote on Fri, Sep 06, 2002 at 08:25:58AM +1000: geoff> > like at instances where we are maintaining boxen through networks, it geoff> > just helps when there isn't costly apparels. geoff> > geoff> What about running powerd, and having some sort of very simple switch geoff>

Re: shutdown without waking up the monitor

2002-09-05 Thread Geoff Crompton
On Wed, Sep 04, 2002 at 01:35:19PM +0530, Suraj Kumar wrote: > hi, > > Adam Galant wrote on Wed, Sep 04, 2002 at 09:31:29AM +0200: > adam> I'm not sure this is what you need (I didn't follow the thread from the > adam> beginning), but you can edit your /etc/inittab and change action on > adam> C

Re: shutdown without waking up the monitor

2002-09-05 Thread Mike Dresser
On Wed, 4 Sep 2002, Adam Galant wrote: > without using ssh/telnet/anything. Currently I plan to remove a PCB from a > keyboard and attach a single key which will do CTRL-ALT-DEL. With this key > on the case I will not need to attach separate keyboard to the box! With a sign, "DO NOT PRESS THE A

Re: shutdown without waking up the monitor

2002-09-04 Thread Suraj Kumar
hi, Adam Galant wrote on Wed, Sep 04, 2002 at 09:31:29AM +0200: adam> I'm not sure this is what you need (I didn't follow the thread from the adam> beginning), but you can edit your /etc/inittab and change action on adam> CTRL-ALT-DEL from reboot to halt. This is what I'm using on a couple of ad

Re: shutdown without waking up the monitor

2002-09-04 Thread Adam Galant
On 3 Sep 2002, Dan Jacobson wrote: > Dan Jacobson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Problem: the electric company often cuts power here either for 10 > > minutes or for the whole day. One can only guess what it will be. > > With both my monitor and computer on, my UPS can only last 5 minutes, > > b

Re: shutdown without waking up the monitor

2002-09-03 Thread Dan Jacobson
Dan Jacobson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Problem: the electric company often cuts power here either for 10 > minutes or for the whole day. One can only guess what it will be. > With both my monitor and computer on, my UPS can only last 5 minutes, > but with the monitor off, the UPS can last 20 m

Re: shutdown without waking up the monitor

2002-08-31 Thread csj
On 31 Aug 2002 04:13:18 +0800 Dan Jacobson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Problem: the electric company often cuts power here either for 10 > minutes or for the whole day. One can only guess what it will be. > With both my monitor and computer on, my UPS can only last 5 minutes, > but with the