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[Der Herr Hofrat <der.herr@hofr.at>]

>From owner-rtl Wed May 23 15:32:47 2001
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From: "Norm Dresner" <ndrez@att.net>
To: "rtlinux" <rtl@rtlinux.org>
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Subject: Re: [rtl] off-topic: ctrl-alt-delete
Date: Wed, 23 May 2001 17:26:37 -0400
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Not that I've tried to do this exactly, but if you have a spare parallel
printer port, you can hook up a simple push-button switch to it to generate
an interrupt.  A fairly trivial device driver can handle the interrupt and
initiate a shutdown.

    Norm

----- Original Message -----
From: Ken Teh <teh@phy.anl.gov>
To: Real Time Linux <rtl@rtlinux.org>
Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2001 12:29 PM
Subject: [rtl] off-topic: ctrl-alt-delete


> I have a rackmount PC with a hard disk, no monitor, no keyboard,  which I
> would like to be able to run shutdown properly at the push of a button.
> Right now I'm using a keyboard to push ctrl-alt-delete to do this, but I
was
> wondering if anyone knows of something more elegant.  A keyboard is a
mighty
> big switch :)
>
> Thanks!
>
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