[gentoo-user] "shutdown -h" on Power-button...

[gentoo-user] "shutdown -h" on Power-button...

[Jarry]

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
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Re: [gentoo-user] "shutdown -h" on Power-button...

[Zac Medico]

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
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Re: [gentoo-user] "shutdown -h" on Power-button...

[Richard Fish]

Zac Medico wrote:

>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
>  
>

Acpid on my system is consuming 592K of memory and has accumulated 0 
seconds of CPU time out of the 40-or-so hours that my laptop has been 
up.  So it is definitely quite frugal on resources!!

-Richard

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