Re: Shutdown/Reboot Ubuntu

Doh! Sorry ... I thought this was from the IceWM mailing list (which I also 
follow). If the info I provided can be used to fix your problem, great. If not, 
please forgive my bad.

-M



----- Original Message ----
> From: Mithat Konar <[email protected]>
> To: Installation and use of the ROX Desktop <[email protected]>
> Sent: Thu, October 21, 2010 12:17:07 PM
> Subject: Re: [rox-users] Shutdown/Reboot Ubuntu
> 
> The problem is that the 'shutdown' command used by IceWM can be executed only 
>by 
>
> root. (This is the default case for most (all?) Linuxes.) Here are a few 
> choices:
> 
> 1) Use sudo to give permission to regular users to execute  the 'shutdown' 
> command without password prompting. This requires editing  your sudoers file 
> (with visudo) but is probably better than the following  option. I set my box 
>up 
>
> so all member of the 'plugdev' group can execute  'shutdown'. I did this by 
>using 
>
> visudo to add:
> 
> %plugdev ALL=NOPASSWD:  /sbin/shutdown
> 
> as the last line in the sudoers file. To power down,  configure IceWM to use:
> 
> sudo shutdown -hP now
> 
> To  reboot:
> 
> sudo shutdown -r now
> 
> 2) Set the 'sticky' bit on the  shutdown command to give all users the ability 
>to 
>
> execute the 'shutdown'  command directly. The problem with this approach is 
>that 
>
> if the 'shutdown'  command get an update in the future, you will have to set 
>the 
>
> sticky bit  again. As root:
> 
> chmod u+s /sbin/shutdown
> 
> (I think this is correct!  I haven't done this in a while.)
> 
> 3) If you have Openbox and GDM installed  as well, you can use 'gdm-control' to 
>
> handle the power stuff. See the man  pages for gdm-control if you want to do it 
>
> this  way.
> 
> 
> Cheers,
> -M
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----
> >  From: Ariszló <[email protected]>
> > To: ROX Users  <[email protected]>
> >  Sent: Thu, October 21, 2010 11:23:17 AM
> > Subject: [rox-users]  Shutdown/Reboot Ubuntu
> > 
> > How do you shutdown/reboot Ubuntu from  ROX-Session?
> > 
> > Logout works fine in  home-built ROX-Session  0.41.0 (unlike in 0launch
> > ROX-Session where even  Logout is broken)  but Shutdown or Reboot does
> > not. No problem in Debian   Lenny/Squeeze/Sid so I guess this might be
> > related to Ubuntu's disabled  root  account but I have no idea how to
> > fix  it.
> > 
> >  
>------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >  Nokia  and AT&T present the 2010 Calling All Innovators-North  America  
>contest
> > Create new apps & games for the Nokia N8 for  consumers in   U.S. and Canada
> > $10 million total in prizes - $4M  cash, 500 devices, nearly  $6M in 
>marketing
> > Develop with Nokia Qt  SDK, Web Runtime, or Java and Publish  to Ovi Store 
> >  http://p.sf.net/sfu/nokia-dev2dev
> >  _______________________________________________
> > rox-users  mailing  list
> > [email protected]
> > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/rox-users
> > 
> 
> 
>       
> 
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Nokia  and AT&T present the 2010 Calling All Innovators-North America  contest
> Create new apps & games for the Nokia N8 for consumers in   U.S. and Canada
> $10 million total in prizes - $4M cash, 500 devices, nearly  $6M in marketing
> Develop with Nokia Qt SDK, Web Runtime, or Java and Publish  to Ovi Store 
> http://p.sf.net/sfu/nokia-dev2dev
> _______________________________________________
> rox-users  mailing list
> [email protected]
> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/rox-users
> 


      

------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Nokia and AT&T present the 2010 Calling All Innovators-North America contest
Create new apps & games for the Nokia N8 for consumers in  U.S. and Canada
$10 million total in prizes - $4M cash, 500 devices, nearly $6M in marketing
Develop with Nokia Qt SDK, Web Runtime, or Java and Publish to Ovi Store 
http://p.sf.net/sfu/nokia-dev2dev