Re: Shutdown with the power button

2008-10-17 Thread Mikel Lindsaar
On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 11:54 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 11:30:02PM +1100, Mikel Lindsaar wrote: Hmm... here is the dmesg then any ideas? looks like you're missing an acpibtn (man acpibtn). Thanks Peter, that is the case and it looks like the why on the problem.

Shutdown with the power button

2008-10-16 Thread Mikel Lindsaar
Hi list, Wondering if anyone knows how (or if it is possible) to be able to gracefully power down an OpenBSD box by hitting the power button on the server. Useful when you need someone to power down a system (like in a power failure situation) but there is no console attached. FreeBSD and linux

Re: Shutdown with the power button

2008-10-16 Thread Mikel Lindsaar
On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 11:22 PM, Gregory Edigarov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mikel Lindsaar wrote: Wondering if anyone knows how (or if it is possible) to be able to gracefully power down an OpenBSD box by hitting the power button on the server. Mine does clean shutdown on power button just

Re: Shutdown with the power button

2008-10-16 Thread Marco Peereboom
power down an OpenBSD box by hitting the power button on the server. Mine does clean shutdown on power button just from the box Hmm... here is the dmesg then any ideas? OpenBSD 4.3 (GENERIC) #698: Wed Mar 12 11:07:05 MDT 2008 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile

Re: Shutdown with the power button

2008-10-16 Thread Guillermo Bernaldo de Quiros Maraver Pedroche
(or if it is possible) to be able to gracefully power down an OpenBSD box by hitting the power button on the server. Mine does clean shutdown on power button just from the box Hmm... here is the dmesg then any ideas? OpenBSD 4.3 (GENERIC) #698: Wed Mar 12 11:07:05 MDT 2008 [EMAIL

Re: Shutdown with the power button

2008-10-16 Thread peter
hi, On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 11:30:02PM +1100, Mikel Lindsaar wrote: Hmm... here is the dmesg then any ideas? looks like you're missing an acpibtn (man acpibtn). -- CUL8R, Peter.

Re: Shutdown with the power button

2008-10-16 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
On 15:41:27 Oct 16, Guillermo Bernaldo de Quiros Maraver Pedroche wrote: see /etc/rc.shutdown and set: powerdown=YES # set to YES for powerdown Try this. It might work. My /etc/sysctl.conf has the line machdep.kbdreset=1 # permit console CTRL-ALT-DEL to do a nice halt I