Graceful shutdown.. howto?

rohan208 · 05-15-2004, 07:53 PM

I want my box to be able to shut down gracefully when I hit the power button and not totally die. Something like windws.
What i mean is that when i hit hte power button on my computer, it should intitiate the shutdwn procedure in linux.. i think it would be like running system('shutdown') when a power button is pressed. But how do i intercept the power button press?
Anyideas?

AltF4 · 05-15-2004, 09:44 PM

don't know what distro you are using and how old it is

suse 9.1 does this out of the box - you can configure the buttons in yast

other distros may need some tweaks to acpi config files (man acpid)

darin3200 · 05-15-2004, 10:38 PM

I'm not sure how to do it so the shutdown procedure is run when the power button is pressed. You can shut down with 'shutdown -h now'

brassfish · 05-15-2004, 10:44 PM

You have to enable acpi in you're kernel, or initiate the appropriate modules.

rohan208 · 05-16-2004, 12:03 PM

I am using RH9.. i tried man acpid but there was no man page available for it.. any other ideas?
What steps do i need to take to eneable acpi in my kernal? is there a link taht talks about it? What other modules i may need ot initiate?
Thx
Rohan

bulliver · 05-16-2004, 02:39 PM

http://www.cpqlinux.com/acpi-howto.html