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"
| 
| in fact, it does a "shutdown now" and kills off inetd, cron, xdm and
| syslogd but the system doesnt then run halt or kill the getty running on
| the console (ttyE0), so I have to login and halt manually.. any ideas?

In twm try this with :

"System Shutdown" f.exec "/sbin/shutdown -h now &"

This has worked for me on numerous types of UNIX for years on end now.
I think the '&' is important here, as your shutdown will otherwise run
as a childprocess of twm which gets killed as your machine shuts down. 

Hope that helps.

Paul 'WEiRD' de Weerd

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