CentOS - Apr 2013 - Getting confirmation for power button

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.

Thanks!

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Mike VanHorn
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College of Engineering and Computer Science
Wright State University
265 Russ Engineering Center
937-775-5157
michael.vanhorn at wright.edu
http://www.cecs.wright.edu/~mvanhorn/

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


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