On Fri, July 21, 2006 4:17 pm, John McMonagle wrote: > Are there plans to add acpid to ltsp?
Yes, this is something that i've definately been wanting to add to LTSP. I, too, am annoyed by the behaviour of the power button, and i've been wanting to fix this for quite some time. Just haven't had the chance. but, with you pointing me to some information about how to go about it, it should make it much easier to just jump in and do it. Thanks, Jim McQuillan [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > On most new workstations the power switch does not actually cut the > power. Some have bios settings that will do instant power off, but most > require holding the power button for about 4 seconds. > > acpid will shut down if you press the power switch on a newer workstation. > The stock debian acpid package does the correct thing as is. > it's pretty small. Should only add about 20k if one just installs the > needed files. > Found one mention of someone doing it in ltsp > http://republico.estv.ipv.pt/~nmct/ltsp/ha/ltsp-ha-howto-en-gpl.sxw > <http://republico.estv.ipv.pt/%7Enmct/ltsp/ha/ltsp-ha-howto-en-gpl.sxw> > > There are a couple other ways to power off terminals but this seems > easiest to me. > > John > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT > Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share > your > opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash > http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV_____________________________________________________________________ > Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss > For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.freenode.net > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _____________________________________________________________________ Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.freenode.net
