Creating a shutdown & reboot button

Mithrilhall · 06-27-2003, 02:25 PM

Could someone explain how I could create these on my desktop in Mandrake? Do I do it with some shell or python scripting?

thanks

cropcircle · 06-28-2003, 12:53 PM

Plain old shellscript will be fine...

Create a shellscript which does something with the commands :

"sudo" and "shutdown"

len · 06-28-2003, 02:56 PM

in gnome you can right click task bar, and add buttons.

what desktop are you using?

Mithrilhall · 06-30-2003, 08:02 AM

I'm using KDE.

nakkaya · 06-30-2003, 08:26 AM

chmod 7755 shutdown

then put a shortcut to shutdown -h now but after that
EVERY USER WILL BE ABLE TO SHUT YOUR COMPUTER DOWN.
for restart just put a restart shortcut

Mithrilhall · 06-30-2003, 08:30 AM

What if I only want myself and root to be able to shutdown or reboot?

...and thanks for the help.

nakkaya · 06-30-2003, 03:48 PM

then you need sudo never used it so

man sudo