On Tue, 26 Sep 2000 15:35:21 +0200, Jörg wrote: >I'm using Debian/GNU Linux 2.2 and the Helix-Gnome desktop. The problem >is, that the 'gshutdown' program wants to be run as root. So I always >have to log in as root and shut down the computer. If you log out of Gnome, you can perform a shutdown from the GDM System menu. You'll have to enable this somewhere in its config files -- by default, it won't let you shut down the system from that menu. Kofa