Re: Calling shutdown from lirc

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

notJames did you ever get it to work from the cmdline?

This is a prerequisite. I use irexec to launch myth on power on/off
press of remote.


mike

not James Knox wrote:
>> On Tue, 10 Apr 2007 02:36:59 +0000
>> "not James Knox" <jam...@ho...> wrote:
>>
>> Hi.
>>
>>     
>>> 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
>>>       
>> Is /etc/init.d/boot.local executable?
>>     
>
>    Yes, and there are some other commands that definitely do get executed in 
> boot.local.
>
>   
>> I guess your lircshutdown.conf is in /etc , not in /ete ?
>>     
>     Correct.
>
>   
>> Try the full path to irexec in boot.local (You get it it with
>> # which irexec
>> /usr/bin
>>
>> or /usr/local/bin or whatever.
>>     
>
>    Ok, I tried changing the line to:
> /usr/bin/irexec --daemon /etc/lircshutdown.conf
> but it comes down to the same thing.
>
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