On Sun, 16 Oct 2005, Dan McGhee wrote:
In my mission to make my LFS distro "seamless" for the other, less
'computer/Linux' savvy <BBG,LOL> members of my family, I've been
experimenting with various window and session managers. I'm most familiar
with Window Maker and ROX-Session. Each of these has an "Exit" menu on which
one can select "Logout, Shutdown or Restart"--or other words that convey the
same concepts. ROX uses the commands 'halt' and 'reboot,' both of which
reside in /sbin. However, one needs to be root to use them. Aside from
building 'sudo,' I'm wondering how I could get the init system to listen/look
for the button selection and then run 'init 0' or 'init 6.' This is, in fact
how I shutdown now--> su to root and then run the command I want.
A couple of years ago, I used to chmod shutdown so that I could shut
down as a user. These days, I mostly use gdm (needs a modest number of
gnome packages) which has options to shutdown or reboot on the login
window (runlevel 5 - if you're giving them a console login at the
moment, might need to symlink their .xinitrc files as .xsession).
Ken
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