It's a feature of ACPI. Although you'll need to disable APM and make sure you have some tools installed (http://acpid.sourceforge.net) http://mirror.hamakor.org.il/archives/linux-il/01-2004/8099.html
Thanks, Paul -----Original Message----- From: Cole Tuininga [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 13, 2004 1:50 PM To: GNHLUG List Subject: Re: Unprivileged user shutdown On Wed, 2004-10-13 at 13:37, Kevin D. Clark wrote: > I accidently hit the power button for a second on my Fedora Core 2 box > (kernel 2.6.x) the other night. A few seconds later, the system shut > itself down cleanly. No, there wasn't a whole lot going on on the box > at the time. > > I've never seen it do *that* before. I haven't had time to > investigate this, but I'd guess that there's a hook in inittab for > this. > > Perhaps you can exploit this functionality for your scenerio? I suspect this is quite possible, but I don't know anything about it. I wouldn't even know where to start googling. 8) I suspect this has something to do with power management applications. -- "... one of the main causes of the fall of the Roman Empire was that, lacking zero, they had no way to indicate successful termination of their C programs." -- Robert Firth Cole Tuininga Lead Developer Code Energy, Inc [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Key ID: 0x43E5755D _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
