Re: En/disabling power button shutdown

2011-06-12 Thread gilbert . fernandes
On Sun, Jun 12, 2011 at 10:38:33AM +0100, Stuart Henderson wrote: > whether or not the power button is disabled, there are plenty of things > which can go wrong with such a move. do it the right way, especially for > a server relied on by 100+ users... True :-) Well I guess that's a mistake I wo

Re: En/disabling power button shutdown

2011-06-11 Thread gilbert . fernandes
On Sat, Jun 11, 2011 at 11:01:20PM +0200, Marc Espie wrote: > One knob for the dwarfen guys that work in the IT mines, to bind the machines > and rule them all. And under the Linux kernel undefined constants, bind them !

Re: En/disabling power button shutdown

2011-06-11 Thread gilbert . fernandes
On Sat, Jun 11, 2011 at 03:00:10PM +, Christian Weisgerber wrote: > That leaves "avoid shutdown by accidentally brushing against the > button", but that isn't an issue in practice. A lot of people are using PCs as servers instead of real servers (with two power supplies and all the bell and w

Re: En/disabling power button shutdown

2011-06-11 Thread gilbert . fernandes
g should be, but if the knob is there we can use PCs with such buttons as servers and choose what happens if they are pressed or not. Perhaps let the button make a shutdown if pressed, and to be able to turn it off on servers ? -- Gilbert Fernandes

Re: Deprecate gcc for mips-openbsd

2011-05-24 Thread gilbert . fernandes
would not be surprised if he has, somewhere in his vault of wonders, some old machine running OpenBSD in a weird configuration :) -- Gilbert Fernandes

Re: Deprecate gcc for mips-openbsd

2011-05-24 Thread gilbert . fernandes
le.com/Deprecating-mips-openbsd-td31684299.html And this : http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=47110 -- Gilbert Fernandes