epoch1970;477290 Wrote: > I agree this part of the setup instructions is perhaps not clear enough. > What happened was exactly what was expected: a simulated shutdown > command, which requires all the privileges or an actual shutdown, was > successfully launched. Exverything was perfectly ok. > > This mode of shutdown exists mostly to allow admins to scare users out > of servers, so that they can, for example, restart or upgrade a service. > It doesn't seem to make much sense in a single user / Desktop > configuration. srvPowerControl makes a clever use of it. > > I don't know what would be best: change (once again ?) this paragraph > of the setup instructions, or have a wrap-up script launch the command, > catch the output and return "all good" or "boo-boo". What I haven't figured out here is how to catch the "boo-boo". If the permissions haven't been set right, presumably, the script hangs out there in a suspended mode while sudo is waiting for a password that it will never receive...and the user will have no visual indication that anything has gone awry. The default time-out for sudo is pretty long, I believe...on the order of 4 minutes or so. That's why I included the instruction to perform "fake shutdown" test in a terminal window. It will show you immediately if the permissions are right or wrong.
But at the very least, I will update the help file to better explain what the test should do and what it's intended to show. -- gharris999 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ gharris999's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=115 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=48521 _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
