power-off button and /etc/inittab

[m.w.chang]

I meant the soft-off switch, not the power chord.?:)

Andrew Mathews wrote:

> If you can find a way to integrate the power switch into the operating 
> system it would work, however you're asking it to essentially do a 
> graceful shutdown *after* pulling the power cord from it. Kinda like 
> sending out an email to let everyone know the mail server is down. After 
> the fact is too late.
> 

-- 
   .~.    Swiftly. Silently. Invisibly. In Linux we trust.
  / v \   news://news.hkpcug.org
/( _ )\  http://www.linux-sxs.org
   ^ ^    2.4.19 3:45am up 7:25, 0 users, load average: 1.00, 1.00, 1.01