Re: [CentOS] Getting confirmation for power button

On 25/04/2013 14:43, Vanhorn, Mike wrote:

Using CentOS 5.8:

Currently on my workstations, when I press the power button the computer immediately does a 'shutdown -h now' (per /etc/acpid/events/power.conf). Is there a way to change it so that a confirmation dialog comes up, rather than an immediate shutdown?

I assume that I am going to need to change that power.conf file to tell some program that the power button's been pressed, rather than making a call to shutdown, but I haven't been able to figure out what program to which I need to make a call.

You are talking about something that acpid is doing for you:

http://linux.die.net/man/8/acpid