Re: [LI] system shutdown

["Aditya Deshpande" <aditya.deshpande@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

you could fire up linuxconf and allow the user halt or reboot rights
this is what i did for my sister since she needs to shutdown the system when
i am not around
i hope that helps
----- Original Message -----
From: Rohit <rohits@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
| My notorious system! Installed everything from PCQ Nov [familiar...
| isn't everyone doing it already?]. There are problems with SiS card.
| But I am not bothered as I am having the card replaces soon with a
| Trident.
|
| At the time of shutdown, three-finger-exercise works neither for Win nor
| for Linux. I could have ascribed that to a faulty left-ctrl key which
| works very fine in DOS games!
|
| 1. Is the shutdown [Win/Linux] key-specific? I can not shut-down my
| Linux machine
|    and have to login as root and then 'HALT' the system.
| 2. After this, all shutdown/term messages appear but the last screen is
| full of

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