Re: Calling shutdown from lirc

[Mike K. <mk...@vx...>]

Run it manually as non-daemon on cmdline and see what happens.


mike

not James Knox wrote:
> Ok, in the last line of /etc/init.d/boot.local (I'm running Suse, btw) I 
> put:
> irexec --daemon /etc/lircshutdown.conf
> and in /ete/lircshutdown.conf I have:
> begin
>         prog = irexec
>         button = power
>         config = shutdown -h now
> end
>
> When I restarted and ran ps aux | grep irexec I found no instance of irexec 
> running. I also ran grep -e irexec /var/log/messages and got no hits. And, 
> to no one's surprise, when I clicked the power button on my remote, nothing 
> happened. What did I do wrong?
>
>
>   
>> From: Mike Klein <mk...@vx...>
>> To: not James Knox <jam...@ho...>
>> CC: lir...@li...
>> Subject: Re: Calling shutdown from lirc
>> Date: Mon, 09 Apr 2007 18:45:28 -0700
>>
>> http://www.lirc.org/html/irexec.html
>>
>>
>> mike
>>
>> not James Knox wrote:
>>     
>>> I want to be able to shutdown my computer from a button on a remote. How
>>> would I go about that? I'm running MythTV, so it would have to be in 
>>>       
>> some
>>     
>>> manner that wouldn't interfere with that
>>>
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