Re: shutdown/halt as user
On Fri, Feb 15, 2002 at 07:26:29PM -0600, Dimitri Maziuk wrote:
> * Mark Ferlatte (ferlatte@cryptio.net) spake thusly:
> > On Sat, Feb 16, 2002 at 08:05:19AM +0800, csj wrote (0.28):
> > > Anybody has the formula for using the power button to shut down the
> > > machine?
> >
> > I got this to work using the ACPI driver in 2.4, and acpid (Debian
> > package). acpid worked out of the box, once I got the apropriate acpi
> > kernel drivers loaded.
>
> Have they been PAM'ified?
If the user presses the power button, wouldn't you rather the system
just gracefully shutdown, rather than not doing anything and the
user pulling the plug (or flipping the real power switch)?
--
Eric G. Miller <egm2@jps.net>
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