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

shutdown without waking up the monitor

2002-08-30 Thread Dan Jacobson
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 minutes. (No, I have the most basic UPS with no