[Voyage-linux] Orderly Shutdown

[Leon Hauck]

First let me say that this is a great project - I was able to get my 
Alix board up and running very quickly with this distribution.

Sorry if this has already been answered somewhere, but I couldn't find 
out how to easily search the mailing list archives.

I'm getting ready to implement a Voyage Linux system using an Alix 3D3 
board and was wondering what the proper procedure was for initiating an 
orderly shutdown on it without having ssh or a serial console connected.

Looking at the manual there is reference to a "MODESW# GPIO G24" but I 
couldn't see it referenced
on the schematic. I suppose in theory a momentary switch could be
connected to it to initiate a shutdown.

I am going to have a web server running on machine on a private network, 
so at the moment I'm thinking that I'll implement a url that if called 
with the correct cryptic parameters that it would initiate an orderly 
shutdown.  Then I can just have that URL bookmarked on my android or iphone.

Normally it wouldn't matter since the main filesystem is mounted read 
only, howerver I am going to have one partition that is going to me 
mounted rw and will be saving data to it, so I'll want it cleanly 
unmounted prior to power off.

Thanks for any insight.