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Re: shutdown from within gnome



On Tue, Aug 12, 2003 at 07:04:02PM -0400, James Strandboge wrote:
> On Tue, 2003-08-12 at 13:38, John R Lenton wrote:
> > WRT the thread on gnome's logout dialog showing reboot etc, it seems
> > what is needed is e.g. /etc/pam.d/reboot.
> > 
> > Ref:
> > https://listman.redhat.com/archives/psyche-list/2003-April/msg00272.html
> 
> See:
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=114432
> 
> for a possible solution (patch is available in the report).

excellent! looking at the code, all I needed to do was

   mkdir /var/lock/console
   touch /var/lock/console/john

and it worked!

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