Re: Disabling Power Monitor (APM) messages

["Steven J. Yellin" <yellin SLAC Stanford EDU>]

On Sun, 4 May 2003, Shriram NK wrote:

> Hello, The battery in my laptop is completely discharged and doesnt
> recharge - probably needs repair or replace :-( - the kernel doesnt like
> this and keeps giving messages periodically.
> 
> =======================
> Broadcast message from root
> Battery Warning (0% Unknown)
> =======================
> 
> Is there any way to turn off this message ?
> 
    Since nobody who knows has answered yet, I'll take a stab at it:
According to /etc/rc.d/init.d/apmd, "apmd is used for monitoring battery 
status...".  So maybe the messages would go away if you didn't run apmd.
Stop it with "service apmd stop" and prevent it from being turned on at
boot time with "chkconfig apmd off".  Or fix your laptop.

-- 
Steven Yellin