Martin Fenelon writes:

>I'm currently using a little script from the acpid package to shut down
>this box when the power button is pressed. Is it possible to make acpid
>wait until the power button is held for say 5 seconds before closing down?
An easier way is to have it so that if you push the button twice withing 5
sec of each other it will shut down. That makes it hard to do it
accidentally, but allows you to shut down with the power button.

This is what I have on my laptop


In /etc/acpi/events/power
event=button/power (PWR.|PBTN)
action=/usr/local/bin/poweroff

in /usr/local/bin/poweroff
#!/bin/bash
if [ -f /tmp/poweroff ] ; then
touch -B 5 /tmp/p$$
if newer /tmp/poweroff /tmp/p$$; then
/sbin/poweroff
fi
rm /tmp/p$$
fi
touch /tmp/poweroff