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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