Re: logout related questions

[Rajesh F. <raj...@gm...>]

On 23/10/02 at 19:14 - Michael P. Soulier said in public:
>On 13/10/02 Rajesh Fowkar did speaketh:
>
>> I am using debian and in debian there is only runlevel 3. In case your
>
>    Actually, that's not true. There are 7 runlevels by default, with 0, 1=
 and
>6 preconfigured to halt, single-user mode and reboot respectively. The def=
ault
>is runlevel 2, permitting you to configure 2, 3, 4 and 5 any way you like.
>Having 3 as console and 5 as graphical login is a RedHatism and a waste of=
 a
>good runlevel, if you ask me.=20
>
>[msoulier@tigger msoulier]$ grep initdefault /etc/inittab
>id:2:initdefault:

True.=20

>
>> don't want graphical login than your have to stop kdm/gdm/xdm from start=
ing
>> on startup. There is no runlevel to do this in debian.
>
>    Nonsense. Configure one. Either manage the symlinks yourself, or use a
>tool like update-rc.d.=20

That's what I do in case anybody wants graphical / text login. update-rc.d
is a cool tool. There are so many such excellent tools under debian.

I just wanted to say that those people who are say shifting from RedHat to
Debian always look for some runlevel for configuring graphical login stuff
and text login. There are used to typing init 5 to go to graphical login
from text :-)

>
>> reboot =3D shutdown -r now for reboot
>> shutdown =3D shutdown -h now=20
>>=20
>> than icewm takes it as shutdown -r now even if you click on Shutdown. It
>> reboots the machine.
>
>    Odd. Can I assume your shutdown program is SUID root to make this
>possible? I'm personally against that.=20
>
>    Have you tried quoting the option?
>
>    reboot =3D "/sbin/shutdown -r now"
>    shutdown =3D "/sbin/shutdown -h now"
>
>    Just a thought. I haven't tested this myself, as I have no desire to
>shutdown or reboot while logged in. I'd rather login as root, or leave that
>option to the display manager, which is already running as root so it does=
n't
>require me to SUID root the shutdown binary.=20
>
>    Optionally, you can also use sudo from the command-line.=20
>
>    sudo reboot
>    sudo halt

This is what I use in my ~/.icewm/preferences file.

# Command to reboot the system
RebootCommand=3D"sudo /sbin/shutdown -r now"

# Command to shut down the system
ShutdownCommand=3D"sudo /sbin/shutdown -h now"

I also tried reboot, halt etc.

If I specify reboot command in any one of the above parameters it reboots
even if I say shutdown. I am using icewm-1.2.2 compiled on my machine.

Thanks a lot.

Peace

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