Jarry wrote: > Hi, > > I want to set up my computer so that it would do automatically > "shutdown -h" after short pressing of "power" button. > > Is the only solution to emerge acpid (found on gentoo-forum)? > Would not it be easier with apm? > > Because I remember once in the past having a comp with some other > linux-distro, where I think I did not install acpid, only edited > some file in /etc, and yet after pressing the "power" button it > correctly shutdowned my computer. > > I just want to keep number of running daemons low. It is not > a notebook, so I think it is not worth to have one more daemon > running all the time just because of one possible event-trigger... > > Jarry
AFAIK your choices are acpid and apmd. Either will do the job as log as it can detect power button events. I wouldn't worry about running the daemon because resource usage is probably quite low. Zac -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
