[vdr] Re: maybe a bit OT: hardware ctrl-alt-del

[Tim Lapawa <tim@lapawa.net>]

On a ATX System you might use the ACPI controller and the normal power off button to shut the system down. The scripts in /etc/acpi/events handle all ACPI events.

Tim

On Thu, Jan 10, 2002 at 04:43:02PM +0100, Emil Naepflein wrote:
> On Thu, 10 Jan 2002 16:25:38 +0100, Axel Gruber <axelgruber3@gmx.de>
> wrote:
> 
> > > maybe a bit OT, but never the less related to vdr. ;)
> > > as i run my vdr machine as a stand alone pc with no
> > > keyboard or monitor (but ssh for remote control),
> > > i.d like to have a button which "emulates" the pressing
> > > of "ctrl-alt-del" in case the pc has stopped responding.
> > > this happens rarely, but it does. (pls. don.t ask why,
> > > i know the cause, but can.t solve it - and it.s not
> > > hardware related)
> > > i need the button. :)
> > 
> > I had a problem like this - but here at my side the network 
> > was going down - the machine runs (also the local console) 
> > So i had to connect a keyboard and make "shutdown -r now"
> 
> One could program an additional remote control key into lirc and use
> irexec to do this. I use one to restart VDR when it doesn't react on the
> remote anymore.
> 
> Emil
> 
> 

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