can I make a reset-at-will box?

Mike McCarty mike.mccarty at sbcglobal.net
Tue Oct 11 05:28:15 UTC 2005


Gilboa Davara wrote:
> You can configure Ctrl-Alt-Del to shutdown the machine by editing the
> ca::ctrlaltdel entry within the inittab file.
> As far as I know, that same be done with the power-off button.
> 
> However, AFAIK, the reset button resets the power and cannot be
> controlled by software.

[snip]

RESET and no power conditions are completely different things.
OTOH, as you guessed, RESET cannot (without support hardware) be
controlled by software.

Mike
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