On Wed, 28 Apr 1999, Dave Whiteley wrote:
> I have made the user "shutdown"'s shell a script which calls the
> shutdown command. However xdm does not seem to run this script.
Thats because X does not run the shell that is specified in /etc/passwd.
Instead, it starts the first window manager in /etc/X11/window-managers or
it runs ~/.xsession - as has been suggested, you can run your script from
this file.
> Is the whole idea a bad one? If not, what am I doing wrong.
Not a Bad Idea (tm).... but I dont use xdm. kdm has a button "Shutdown"
which kinda makes it easy.
Michael Beattie ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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