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Jarry wrote: |
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> Hi, |
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> I want to set up my computer so that it would do automatically |
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> "shutdown -h" after short pressing of "power" button. |
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> Is the only solution to emerge acpid (found on gentoo-forum)? |
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> Would not it be easier with apm? |
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> Because I remember once in the past having a comp with some other |
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> linux-distro, where I think I did not install acpid, only edited |
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> some file in /etc, and yet after pressing the "power" button it |
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> correctly shutdowned my computer. |
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> I just want to keep number of running daemons low. It is not |
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> a notebook, so I think it is not worth to have one more daemon |
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> running all the time just because of one possible event-trigger... |
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> Jarry |
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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. |
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Zac |
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