Shutdown when pressing power button in fvwm2

[Johnny Ljunggren]

I've set up some computers that will use Fvwm2 as window manager.

How can I configure the system such that it will do a controlled shutdown after one press on the power button?

 

regards

Johnny

 

 

[moved from Software by spinynorman]

[scarecrow]

http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Shutti...he_power_button

It applies, more or less, for every distro out there.

[Johnny Ljunggren]

Hmm, seems that I am unable to accomplish this. Here's what I've done:

 

# service acpid status

acpid (pid 3141) is running...

 

# cat /etc/acpi/events/power

event=button/power (PWR.||PBTN)

action=/sbin/poweroff

 

Mandriva has only got an actions directory in /etc/acpi, so I added power there as well:

# cat /etc/acpi/actions/power

event=button/power (PWR.||PBTN)

action=/sbin/poweroff

 

ls -l /sbin/poweroff

lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 Nov 11 22:43 /sbin/poweroff -> halt

# ls -l /sbin/halt

-rwsr-sr-x 1 root root 10384 Jan 6 2007 /sbin/halt

 

 

Running halt/poweroff directly shuts down correcly, so it seems that the power action is not triggered. How do I debug this?

 

Johnny

[scarecrow]

Hmmm... I'd rather remove that file, recheck the BIOS ACPI settings, and probably reinstall acpid.

In the only instance I have Mandriva running ( a VMWare virtual machine, running Cooker) i do have an /etc/acpi/events directory, containing two files- power and sleep, none created by hand.

cat /etc/acpi/events/power returns

event=button/power (PWR.|PBTN)
action=/etc/acpi/actions/pm-fallback-shutdown

and /etc/acpi/events/sleep has

event=button/sleep
action=/etc/acpi/actions/pm-fallback-suspend

Edited November 13, 2007 by scarecrow