Ryan Tandy wrote:
rob wrote:
How do you get power pitten to shutdown and power off Gentoo box????
rob
# emerge sys-power/acpid
# rc-update add acpid default
# /etc/init.d/acpid start
and you're done! The default configuration for acpid includes a handler
for the power button event.
HTH.
Just a slight hijacking of this topic,
I have a little EPIA server acting as firewall, npt, dhcp, dns,etc,etc.
Now even though it doesn't pull a lot of power, I don't want it running
all the time, it has something to do with missing ice caps. So I want to
build a button that attaches to the machine via, say, usb that when
pushed shuts the machine down. By a button I mean that sort of emergency
shutdown button that is usually red and used in industrial control, the
sort of thing the hero always has to push to save the heroine/world.
Does anyone here have enough hardware design knowledge to say if this
would be easy or not and as to whether I should just lower my sights and
stick to the three finger salute or the "normal" on/off switch?
Regards,
Andrew
p.s. The main reason driving this is that the wife never turns the
server off. If I have a Big Red Switch, I can say "But it has a big red
switch, how can you miss it????"
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