Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 19 Dec 1997 23:50:21 -0000 (GMT) | From | Mike Bristow <> | Subject | Re: Console handling (was: Re: Let's vote for PnP on 2.2) |
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On 12-Dec-97 Eberhard Burr wrote: > Still, being left with a dead console is an inconvinient situation, > especially on an non-networked machine. I'd love to see a possibility > to at least cleanly unmount all file systems in such cases. I've been > thinking about using upsd and a switch connected to a free serial > port...
Or you could plug in elcheapo joystick and run "shutdown -r now" when both buttons are pressed for more than 5 seconds.
I think there's some software that does this already.
--- Mike Bristow - mike@shivan.demon.co.uk The nice thing about Windows is - It does not just crash, it displays a dialog box and lets you press 'OK' first. (Arno Schaefer's .sig)
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