Re: The Big Red Button - was Re: [gentoo-user] Power butten

2006-09-16 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Sat, 2006-09-16 at 11:17 +1000, Andrew Lowe wrote: > > 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 m

Re: The Big Red Button - was Re: [gentoo-user] Power butten

2006-09-16 Thread William Kenworthy
use a usb mouse - dismantle it and use your big red button to close the left mouse switch (or better one of the aux ones if they exist). Map this to shutdown the system. BillK On Sat, 2006-09-16 at 11:17 +1000, Andrew Lowe wrote: > Ryan Tandy wrote: > > rob wrote: > >> How do you get power pitte

The Big Red Button - was Re: [gentoo-user] Power butten

2006-09-15 Thread Andrew Lowe
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.