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Disabling the Front Panel Buttons And Remote Control

Summary

There is a process called fpbuttons running that monitors the front-panel buttons for presses and responds to them. It can be turned off to save memory and/or prevent people from using the front panel.

Similarly, there is a process called irremote that watches for remote-control keypresses and responds to those. It too can be turned off should you want to save more memory or prevent the remote control from being used.

Details

You can stop the fpbuttons process by killing it. This will only last until the next reboot. To stop it permanently you must edit the /etc/inittab file and remove (or comment out) the line:
::respawn:/usr/local/bin/fpbuttons
The same goes for the irremote process.

Last modified on 23 Nov 2006 by AO

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