On Tue, Dec 31, 2002 at 11:56:35AM +0000, Iain Hibbert wrote:
> Hi, strange problem here..  I am running on an older laptop, the battery
> is buggered so I just have it connected to the mains and shutdown when I'm
> not using it. I am running 1.5.2 which is older too but I'm not about to
> uprade just yet (unless I want to play with bluetooth)
> 
> anyway, "shutdown -h now" works from within a shell in an xterm, but not
> direct from the twm menu:
> 
> "System Shutdown"	f.exec "exec /sbin/shutdown -D -h now >/dev/null"

What, exactly, led you to believe that the -D flag to shutdown was
meaningless?