Of course the three finger salute does a re-boot. If you want to shutdown
type
shutdown -h now
This brings the computer to the halt state, so you can safely turn off the
computer without loosing data. See man shutdown for more info. Unless you
set up sudo to allow users to use this command you must be root to issue
shutdown. If your PC isn't a standalone, you may not want users to be able
to run shutdown.
Since I am using Linux at home, and my family is using it too I have setup
sudo to let anyone shutdown the PC. It is not a networked multi-user setup
(who ever is on the PC is the only person running jobs) so it is safe to
allow anyone to shutdown the PC. My kids are using Linux and Gnome and can
navigate quite well with a few rudamantary instructionns to get them
started. Who says linux is not for the masses?!
Richard Adams wrote:
> On Fri, 19 Nov 1999, Chris Bennett wrote:
> >Crap now I know what I did
> >Shutdown requires the X libraries for libc5 and I deleted all the X11
> >folders
> >Crap!
> >Um any ideas What Rpm's I'm going to need to force or what I can compile
> >that will replace those libraries? I am running Redhat 6.0
>
> What ever on earth make you say that,?? shutdown does _not_ need X at
> all.
>
> Have you simply tryed ctrl-alt-delete commenly known as the three
> finger salute.??
>
> The above should be defined in /etc/inittab as;
>
> # Trap CTRL-ALT-DELETE
> ca::ctrlaltdel:/sbin/shutdown -t3 -r now
>
> --
> Regards Richard
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