Recently I came across a very useful piece of code called Powerswitch. It's a small kernel module that intercepts and cancels APM/ACPI suspend signals and then runs 'shutdown -h now'. This means that if your e-smith machine has any halfway recent bios you can trigger a clean shutdown by pressing the power button, which is great for headless boxes.
Anyone who's interested can find the code at http://workshy.org/download/powerswitch-1.4.tar.gz I'll certainly be adding it to any e-smith boxes I set up and I think it would be a great thing for the development team to add as an optional component of the core distribution BUT there's no license included with the code and the author seems to have vanished from public view (though he does still seem to be around). Anybody happen to know Joris van Rantwijk? I've been trying to contact him to find out if he's willing to put the code under a free software license and/or hand it over to another maintainer. -- Bruce
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