Re: shutdown/halt as user
* Eric G. Miller (egm2@jps.net) spake thusly:
> 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)?
Sure. Our SGIs do just that.
You missed the X-Sarcasm header -- Mark's question can easily be
misparsed in the context of this thread.
Dima
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