Re: reboot/halt in logout menu??
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From: Hanspeter R. <han...@ho...> - 2002-02-15 16:10:07
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On Fri, Feb 15, 2002 at 04:18:51PM +0100, Ludootje wrote: > sudo? Never heard of that, and it seems I don't have in on my machine. You haven't installed it or dropped it. :-) You may have it on you CDs or you probably can install it from the Net. (kpackage, rpm -ihv, pkg_add or so) > I think chmod is the best, well certainly the fastest, I don't know what sudo > does, but kdesu pops up a window and asks for the root pass and tells which > command will be executed, so the 'bad' things about it are that you need X, > you need the kdelibs and the kde base/core too of course, and well it's On my home pc I've put %users thishost = NOPASSWD: /sbin/shutdown -* now into /etc/sudoers. This allows me to `sudo /sbin/shutdown -r now' while `shutdown' dosen't have the user-id-bit set. But probably the last is also sufficient. With NOPASSWD sudo dosen't seem to care for a password. Ok. Icewm or sometimes Windowmaker belongs to `my minimal installation'. This implies X11. On my station I also use Kde programs and therefor I have it installed. (But it's usually not in my first minimal installaltion.) > > Really? Since I always shutdown using 'shutdown -h/-r now' I haven't tried > that out, I had no idea of this. Seems nice, I'll try it out this evening, I probably wanted to try ctl-alt-backspace which terminates a hung X session immediatly but hit ctl-alt-del as a habbit. Since then I use this often. > thanks. If it's like you say - which I don't doubt about - then then menu > thing I describe is useless, since keybindings are faster. Menus are usefull for exploring what functions are available. Keybindings are usefull for everyday use. This is what _many_ window managers lack. Icewm had this in the specification very early. That's why I went for Icewm. > A sync? I'm sorry, my English is really bad, I don't understand what you mean > by that :o If you are running Unix, don't delete `sync'. It may be used by some shutdown scripts. Unix flushes it's memory cache once a while. But before you press your machines reset button issue sync once or twice. Or if you have a journaling file system it probably doesn't matter. -Hanspeter |