On Monday 05 November 2001 17:08, Joseph Jackson wrote: > What I think he is talking about is that with some computers (dell is > the only one I know) that are running windowsNT if you hit the power > button on the front of the pc they begin to do a software shutdown. > Thats what he is asking how can he set it up so when he hits the power > button that the machine notices this and goes into a software shutdown..
Well look at it this way, by depressing the power button on the computer you start a shutdown, ok yes i now know what wa meant, what Linux has that no windows software has is "ctrl-alt-del" invokes the defined call in /etc/inittab by default its in short, "shutdown -r now" that one can change to use 'poweroff' 'shutdown' or 'reboot'. So instead of pressing the power button on the machine itself, hit ctrl-alt-delete, advantage of that is no need to streach to reach the machine as the keyboard is right in front of you. -- Regards Richard [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://people.zeelandnet.nl/pa3gcu/ _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list Archives, Digests, etc at http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
