AW: Shutdown via power button
One year ago i had the same problem and found a program named powerswitch
from Joris van Rantwijk. The only thing you need is setting the power button
from on/off to suspend in your bios. You can get it here:
http://deadlock.et.tudelft.nl/~joris/powerswitch/
Hope this helps you.
Stefan Drees
> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: Randy Orrison [mailto:Randy.Orrison@keswickcomputers.co.uk]
> Gesendet: Freitag, 20. Dezember 2002 15:10
> An: debian-user
> Betreff: Shutdown via power button
>
>
> I've set up a debian linux server which the user wants to be able to
> shut down every day. It's set up without a keyboard or monitor, any
> administration is done by telnet. I'd like them to be able to shut it
> down cleanly by hitting the power button. The attached
> message I found
> in the archive explains how to do it, and works fine, with the caveat
> mentioned in the message. The system will sometimes suspend before
> shutting down, and the user has to push the power button again to wake
> it up so it can shut down (if you follow). Does anyone have
> a solution
> to this? Either a way to delay or cancel the suspend, or
> significantly
> speed up the shutdown. Thanks!
>
> | From: "Martin Bialasinski" <martin@internet-treff.uni-koeln.de>
> | Date: 18 Jun 1999 23:53:26 +0200
> |
> | >> "AM" == Alisdair McDiarmid <alisdair@letdown.demon.co.uk> writes:
> |
> | AM> I've got an ATX system with APM enabled and working
> fine. I'd like
> | AM> to disable the power button in software so that the machine
> | AM> effectively cannot be switched off without root access
> - `shutdown
> | AM> -h now' would still halt and power-down.
> |
> | I do something similar. Instead of disabling the button
> (don't know if
> | this is possible), I set it in the BIOS to make the computer go to
> | power-safe mode (suspend). (holding it pressed down will still turn
> | the computer off).
> |
> | Then I installed apmd and make a script /etc/apm/suspend.d/shutdown
> | #!/bin/sh
> |
> | shutdown -h now
> |
> | Now when I press the button, the box will do a clean
> | shutdown. SOmetimes the suspend mode is initialized before
> linux could
>
> | kill everything, then i press the button again, suspend mode will be
> | deactivated, and the suspeded shutdown command will finish its job.
> |
> | Kind of handy, if your keyboard and mouse is stuck (do to a bug in X
> | or 3Dfx or such).
>
> --
> Randy Orrison
> Keswick Computer Services
>
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