Other Help Topics :: Shutdown on press of the power button..

Hi!

I am wondering if there is an easy way to make my DSL system react on my power button.
I would like to perform a system shutdown if the button is pressed shortly.

Any ideas how to solve this?

Thanks in advance!

/etc/inittab , acpi , apm keywords might help you out...

If your system is acpi compliant, you can "apt-get install acpid".

The acpid daemon will detect "power button events" and run a script of your making. If you put the following in the script, you should get a shutdown when you press the button briefly:

exitcheck.sh shutdown (or reboot)

Hi Juanito,

that sounds like a clean and straight way for me, thanks a lot for your advice!

Today I finally found some time to try it.. here is what I have done (im working with a frugal system with cf card on a quite modern computer):

- changed the bootoption "noacpi" into "acpi=force"
- apt-get install acpi
- changed powerbtn.sh as required
- put powerbtn.sh and events/powerbtn in filetool.lst

I tested my powerbutton.sh script by executing it manually and it works fine. Also I can let the acpi commands show me the temperature of my system - but still it doesnt react on my powerbutton.
Also I cant find a logfile on (/ramdisk)/var/logs/

Any further ideas on this problem? Maybe I forgot something?

Thanks a lot in advance,

Jan

I don't start syslogd by default on live CD or frugal type installations.
But for debuging it is nice to start and then check /var/log/messages.

sudo syslogd

It there!

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