Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2006 11:44:38 -0800 From: Nate Lawson <nate@root.org> To: Matthias Schmidt <schmidtm@mathematik.uni-marburg.de> Cc: "freebsd-acpi@freebsd.org" <freebsd-acpi@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Invoke script by power button Message-ID: <43D13DA6.5080104@root.org> In-Reply-To: <20060120163456.GD18939@staatsfeind.org> References: <43D0F78E.9030505@freenet.de> <20060120163456.GD18939@staatsfeind.org>
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Matthias Schmidt wrote: > Moin, > > * Hendrik Koch wrote: > >>Hi, >> >>i am looking for a way to invoke a shell script when i press the >>power-button. >>The script should do some custom tasks and then "shutdown -p now". > > > Look into /etc/rc.shutdown. Yeah, that's a good place since the system won't actually shut down until the script is done executing. You can get power button notifies from devd (see devd.conf) but the system will continue processing the shutdown without waiting. -- Nate
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