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[Discuss] gracefully shutdown guests



On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 04:07:20PM +0000, Edward Ned Harvey (blu) wrote:
> Around fedora 16 or so, they disabled the acpi power button.  There are some hoops you can jump through to re-enable it, but the only result you can get is an interactive prompt, while a user is logged in.  There's isn't any option to unconditionally shutdown, and there isn't any option to do it while nobody's logged in.
> 

Can you run an instance of acpid with just the appropriate config
to call "shutdown -h now"?


-dsr-




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