Michael Gerhards wrote:
> Hubert Feyrer <hubert@feyrer.de> wrote:
> 
> 
>>>So I really need this "press-one-key-halts-system". As I understood, I
>>>can only get this feature using powerd on 2.x. Is this correct? Or do
>>>you see another way?
>>
>>Dunno about powerd, but KDE (and friends') display manager have 
>>GUI-based/mouse-operated "shutdown" with a few clicks. Or create a 
>>poweroff/halt login which has poweroff/halt/whatever as login shell
>>(and uid 0, and all network terminals in /etc/ttys marked as insecure, so 
>>only console users can use it)
> 
> 
> Also nice ideas - but they don't fit to my special situation. The Sun
> shall act as a pure server so there is _no_ monitor connected and no
> simple way to log in.
> 
> So a possible way to get it down should be by pressing the power button
> or pressing some keys on the keyboard.
> 
> Michael
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You need to log into a server at some point, i.e. general admin tasks, 
adding software, checking logs etc. The simplest way to log in is 
through ssh