Replying to the message sent by Douglas Pollard on Mon, 27 Jan 2003 09:25:33 -0400, received at 15:27:20 on 27/01/2004. Douglas Pollard wrote: > I'm a newby to debian linux and feeling pretty dumb. I have managed to partition my hard drive and install Debian but I can't figure out how to get into root in order to shut down my machine. If I am in Gnome how do I close Debian-linux down. If someone would walk me through from Gnome > I would be thankful. At the present time I am shuting down with th off button on the front of my machine. > Doug
open a Konsole window (i don't know what its called in gnome probably the same) and type the following command: su - and then type the root password. Then type the following command: shutdown -t now There ya go -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
