Re: why doesn't shutdown work ??

"J. Bakshi" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.window-managers.icewm.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Fri, 28 May 2010 10:29:02 +0530
MohanSai <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi Bakshi! 
> i'm not an expert at linux. there are two inittab files on my ubuntu
> system. 
> 1) /etc/inittab
> 2) /usr/share/sysvinit/inittab
> which file needs to be appended with the line you mentioned?
> "shutdown -a /etc/shutdown.allow"
> could you specify which file ? 
> Also, will this also work for reboot and how about locking the system.
> 

Hello,

My box is based on debian. Generally /etc/inittab is the file where all this modification can be done. Even in rpm based distro. So it should be the same in ubuntu which is also based on debian

1] vlock is a console based terminal locking tool
2] xtrlock is a light xwindow based locking application.

In icewm you can easily map xtrlock with the key combination
using .icewm/keys file

with regards,
J.B.

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