On Thu, 12 Aug 1999 09:29:01 -0500 "Matthew W. Roberts" <matt_at_lehi.tamu.edu> wrote
concerning 'FVWM: Shutting down from FVWM':
> Hi All,
>
> I'm trying to get Linux set up on our home box. I'd like my wife
> to be able to use it, so I need a simple way to shutdown the
> machine. (I don't think she will want to su, enter the password,
> and type shutdown -h now...)
>
> I know this is probably not a pure FVWM question, and I appologize
> if this is the wrong place to ask. But, I'm looking for suggestions
> on how to implement this. Preferably, she would just have to click
> a button or menu item (in X, with fvwm2) to cleanly bring the system
> down.
>
how about just setting ctrl-alt-del to shutdown instead of reboot?
in your /etc/inittab do this:
instead of "ca::ctrlaltdel:/sbin/shutdown -t3 -r now"
do "ca::ctrlaltdel:/sbin/shutdown -t3 -h now"
(RH system, but it should be similar everywhere)
Cheers,
Dan
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Received on Thu Aug 12 1999 - 10:49:36 BST