Re: Calling shutdown from lirc

[not J. K. <jam...@ho...>]

It halts


>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 19:48:24 -0700
>
>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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