Re: Calling shutdown from lirc

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

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

   Yes I did, and it powered off the computer as it should.

>
>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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