initscripts
Still no responses to my apm question (
http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2003/debian-user-200307/msg03355.html
), so I've started investigating a bit, to see if I can figure this out
for myself.
I have found the following page that describes, amoung other things, the
initscripts that are run when changing runlevels:
http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-opersys.html and I think I am
in the right area. Trouble is, this seems to be more aimed at package
maintainers, so that packages that add initscripts do so in "the right
way" for debian.
Still, what I have come up with is the following:
1) I need to write a script that when it receives the argument "stop"
will do a "modprobe apm power_off=1".
2) The script needs to live in /etc/rc0.d, or somewhere else but be
symlinked there.
3) The script needs to be called Sxxloadapm, where xx is a suitably high
number so that gdm has already been stopped (I chose this, as in rc0.d,
"S" scripts are still run after "K" ones, but with the parameter "stop",
so it seems safer).
I'm afraid that's as good as I can do by myself, so would anyone be so
kind as to do the final polishing for me (that includes suggestions as
to the script itself - I've never written one of these before, and I
find the existing ones hard to follow).
I would also like to make sure that this is done in the nicest way, i.e.
not too hacky. The whole thing is a bit of a hack, I know, but I can't
see any other way to make this work.
Thanks in advance.
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