-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 16 March 2003 12:55 pm, John LeMay wrote: [in response to H du Plooy]
I want it to get the "switch-off-now!" signal, [...]
It may help to explain why you are trying to do this. Looks like I missed the original post since I don't see it in my inbox. In an emergency situation, halting the system is - as you know - the best solution for data protection
I went back a couple of threads and checked -- seems he did give a reason: On Tuesday 11 March 2003 8:06 am, H du Plooy wrote:
I'm trying to get a script going that would shutdown my linux system in case of emergency (like the CPU fan going bust).
I think if the CPU fan is going/goes, the system may shut itself down one way or another [however, unless you have an alarm on the CPU fan, most likely the only way you're going to know it stopped is when you smell/see smoke...] - -- Yet another Blog: http://osnut.homelinux.net -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+dOqAV/YHUqq2SwsRAuknAJ0VshOJw183EgaqzSmk9pMJdM1MtQCeIcVG nJucrdd+27DfjBgoAYI7WP4= =o6oc -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----