Jarry wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I want to set up my computer so that it would do automatically
> "shutdown -h" after short pressing of "power" button.
> 
> Is the only solution to emerge acpid (found on gentoo-forum)?
> Would not it be easier with apm?
> 
> Because I remember once in the past having a comp with some other
> linux-distro, where I think I did not install acpid, only edited
> some file in /etc, and yet after pressing the "power" button it
> correctly shutdowned my computer.
> 
> I just want to keep number of running daemons low. It is not
> a notebook, so I think it is not worth to have one more daemon
> running all the time just because of one possible event-trigger...
> 
> Jarry

AFAIK your choices are acpid and apmd.  Either will do the job as log as it can 
detect power button events.  I wouldn't worry about running the daemon because 
resource usage is probably quite low.

Zac
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