Re: [Emc-users] Linux halt detection

2009-11-12 Thread Leonardo Marsaglia
Thank you very much for your help mark. 2009/11/11 Mark mpic...@gmail.com Oops, didn't pay attention to what you said. The power button still won't work; you must shutdown from within the os - either by clicking the shutdown icon or menu item on the screen, or with 'shutdown -h now' on

Re: [Emc-users] Linux halt detection

2009-11-11 Thread Mark
Oops, didn't pay attention to what you said. The power button still won't work; you must shutdown from within the os - either by clicking the shutdown icon or menu item on the screen, or with 'shutdown -h now' on the command line. On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 8:49 AM, Mark mpic...@gmail.com wrote:

Re: [Emc-users] Linux halt detection

2009-11-09 Thread Leonardo Marsaglia
Hello mark, thanks for your answer.. i tried that but when i press the power button the machine powers off skipping the halt sequence. I read in the sript that may be i need to install kexec, but for this i need to recompile and reinstall .. this refers to the kernel? Well thanks again for the

[Emc-users] Linux halt detection

2009-11-08 Thread Leonardo Marsaglia
Hello everybody, i was thinking in making an automatic external shutdown device, since the kernel is configured not to halt in the normal way.. What i was wondering is if when i shutdown the system and the screen says system halted is there any physical connector or something that i can use to

Re: [Emc-users] Linux halt detection

2009-11-08 Thread Mark
I posted a suggestion on the emc-developers list in october, which will power off the computer. Use caution and back up anything important, of course! http://www.mail-archive.com/emc-develop...@lists.sourceforge.net/msg02648.html Mark On Sun, Nov 8, 2009 at 8:19 PM, Leonardo Marsaglia