Re: why doesn't shutdown work ??

Frank McCormick <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.window-managers.icewm.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Fri, 28 May 2010 22:29:21 +0530
"J. Bakshi" <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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
> 

  I tried it on my box (Debian testing) and all I got was an error
message saying tags can only be 4 characters long. (Line added to /etc/inittab)



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Frank<[email protected]>

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