Re: [Usability] User Shut Down damaged PC



On Wed, 2007-03-21 at 15:58 -0400, Reed Hedges wrote:
> One more option: a little tool that blocks any attempt at shutdown or 
> reboot on the system as long as it's running. Not sure how to do
> this without being pretty sneaky-- by cancelling any shutdown request 
> that happens?   Even if it catches SIGKILL, Gnome still lets you
> TERMinate it with its force quit dialog box... Hmm...

This is one of the use cases that the Open Hardware Manager is aiming to
solve, by letting the system upgrade tool inhibit shutdown whilst it is
running.

http://ohm.freedesktop.org/wiki/

Ross
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