Subject: Re: shutting down from fvwm2 menu
To: Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@chylonia.3miasto.net>
From: Michael Kukat <michael@bsdfans.org>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 08/19/2002 09:11:20
Hi !

On Mon, 19 Aug 2002, Wojciech Puchar wrote:
> i added some users to operator group and added menu position in fvwm2rc
> with Exec exec /sbin/shutdown -h now
>
> unfortunately shutdown seems to be killed just after going to text mode so
> system is not shut down.

Have you tried this with "nohup"? something like "exec nohup /sbin/shutdown -h
now </dev/null >/dev/null 2>&1 &" could do the job...

Didn't try, but nohup is fine in different problem cases.

...Michael

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