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Re: system shutdown from xdm



On Wed, Apr 28, 1999 at 11:07:16AM +0000, Dave Whiteley wrote:
> In the olden days I worked with a PDP11/44 running Unix.  I did not know
> a lot about Unix, but I was trusted to  shut the system down by logging
> is as a special user "shutdown".

> I have made the user "shutdown"'s shell a script which calls the
> shutdown command. However xdm does not seem to run this script.

Hi,

on X login, ~/.xsession is executed by default, so I suppose you could
call your shutdown script from there.

Robert

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Robert Vollmert                                      rvollmert@gmx.net


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