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Re: text-only login is root?




--- On Fri, 10/22/10, Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net> wrote:

> From: Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net>
> Subject: Re: text-only login is root?
> To: "post id" <postid@att.net>
> Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Date: Friday, October 22, 2010, 4:15 AM
> On 10/21/2010 10:11 PM, post id
> wrote:
> >
> > --- On Fri, 10/22/10, David Jardine<david@jardine.de> 
> wrote:
> >
> >>>
> >>> --- On Thu, 10/21/10, David Jardine<david@jardine.de>
> >> wrote:
> >>>
> [snip]
> > My setup is a seven-year-old laptop, with Lenny and
> Fluxbox
> > and Icewm. The laptop has a cd/cdrw/dvd drive,
> > a 40GB hard drive, wifi and ethernet. Most-used
> software are
> > browser and email plus some office and DTP apps. To
> shutdown, I
> > usually manually close down apps, then do "shutdown -h
> now"
> > in an Xterm.
> >
> 
> What we *should* be asking you is, "Since you use startx
> like God 
> intended, why do you feel the need for ctrl-alt-f1?"
> 
>  >              Is
> there a better way?
> 
> Exit all the way out of Fluxbox and *then* run "shutdown -h
> now".
> 
Aha. Thank you very much. 

Postid


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