Re: [K12OSN] Power Off / Dell Optiplex

[Eric Harrison <eharrison mail mesd k12 or us>]

On Tue, 26 Mar 2002, Jon Harder wrote:

>I have a lab with dual boot ( RedHat 7.1 / W98 ) Dell Optiplex
>GX150s.  I have a problem with kids pressing the power button
>and causing Linux to shutdown ungracefully.
>
>Is there a way for APM or something similar to intercept the
>power button activity and ignore it or do something better
>than an immediate poweroff?

On my laptop this is a bios setting. It is likely to be the same on
a desktop (but I'm a server guy, I configure things to ALWAYS be on ;-).

Worse case, upgrade to Red Hat 7.2. RH72 defaults to ext3, which
greatly reduces the amount of time it takes to reboot after an
unclean shutdown.

-Eric