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RE: Building a single user Internet terminal / Done!



shutdown -h now will halt the system not reboot it,
you need 

shutdown -r now

Marcin Kurc
CAD Systems Administrator
Cooper-Standard Automotive 

-----Original Message-----
From: Karsten M. Self [mailto:kmself@ix.netcom.com]
Sent: Monday, April 08, 2002 12:19 PM
To: Debian User List
Subject: Re: Building a single user Internet terminal / Done!


on Mon, Apr 08, 2002, Shawn McMahon (smcmahon@eiv.com) wrote:
> begin  quoting what Erik van der Meulen said on Mon, Apr 08, 2002 at
10:32:35AM +0200:
> > 
> > - /usr/local/bin/startkiosk only does 'startx'
> 
> Now make that script do a "shutdown -h now" after startx exits, and all
> you'll have to do to shut down is exit X.  Maybe.

Not recommended.  If X quits abnormally, it will also restart.  What you
want:

   startx_command && shutdown -h now

...which should only restart the system if X is exited normally.  If it
exits with a nonzero status, the system stays up.

Peace.

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