>Hello all!! I have just gone into my /etc/inittab file and set my default to
>4, which invokes XDM on my Slackware version. All comes up great, except, I
>don't know how to shut Linux down. When in text mode I type 'shutdown -r now'
>and Linux shuts down and re-boots, however, when I open up a xterm window and
>try to do this I get a message: bash command not known.
>How do I get this to work? I read in the inittab, that to get XDM to work on
>the system, there is a getty? running on virtual terminal 6, where I can log
>onto and run the shutdown command from, but,would rather run it from X. Any
>ideas out there?
are you root? If not, you have to su, else you cannot run the
shutdown command.
Also, depending on your pathing, you may have to say /sbin/shutdown -r
now (I _think_ it is sbin, anyway).
Hope this helps
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Ken Gaugler Hybrid Networks, Inc. Cupertino, Calif.
"The life of a Repo Man is ALWAYS INTENSE..."