[vdr] Re: maybe a bit OT: hardware ctrl-alt-del

[Emil Naepflein <Emil.Naepflein@philosys.de>]

On Thu, 10 Jan 2002 16:25:38 +0100, Axel Gruber <axelgruber3@gmx.de>
wrote:

> > maybe a bit OT, but never the less related to vdr. ;)
> > as i run my vdr machine as a stand alone pc with no
> > keyboard or monitor (but ssh for remote control),
> > i.d like to have a button which "emulates" the pressing
> > of "ctrl-alt-del" in case the pc has stopped responding.
> > this happens rarely, but it does. (pls. don.t ask why,
> > i know the cause, but can.t solve it - and it.s not
> > hardware related)
> > i need the button. :)
> 
> I had a problem like this - but here at my side the network 
> was going down - the machine runs (also the local console) 
> So i had to connect a keyboard and make "shutdown -r now"

One could program an additional remote control key into lirc and use
irexec to do this. I use one to restart VDR when it doesn't react on the
remote anymore.

Emil