Unprivileged user shutdown

[Cole Tuininga]

On Wed, 2004-10-13 at 13:37, Kevin D. Clark wrote:
> I accidently hit the power button for a second on my Fedora Core 2 box
> (kernel 2.6.x) the other night.  A few seconds later, the system shut
> itself down cleanly.  No, there wasn't a whole lot going on on the box
> at the time.
> 
> I've never seen it do *that* before.  I haven't had time to
> investigate this, but I'd guess that there's a hook in inittab for
> this.
> 
> Perhaps you can exploit this functionality for your scenerio?

I suspect this is quite possible, but I don't know anything about it.  I
wouldn't even know where to start googling.  8)  I suspect this has
something to do with power management applications.  

-- 
"... one of the main causes of the fall of the Roman Empire was that,
 lacking zero, they had no way to indicate successful termination of
 their C programs."  --  Robert Firth

Cole Tuininga
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Code Energy, Inc
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