Invoke script by power button

[Nate Lawson]

Matthias Schmidt wrote:
> Moin,
> 
> * Hendrik Koch wrote:
> 
>>Hi,
>>
>>i am looking for a way to invoke a shell script when i press the
>>power-button.
>>The script should do some custom tasks and then "shutdown -p now".
> 
> 
> Look into /etc/rc.shutdown.

Yeah, that's a good place since the system won't actually shut down 
until the script is done executing.  You can get power button notifies 
from devd (see devd.conf) but the system will continue processing the 
shutdown without waiting.

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Nate