[aclug-L] Re: Shutting down linux from X

[Anne McCadden <ironrose@xxxxxxx>]

I was told by cox.net that a person could have up to 3 IP addresses, and 
that means to me that I can have 3 computers connected to cox.net. 
 Admittedly, the download times really sloooow down quite a bit.  ~Anne

Koji Hayakawa wrote:

>Is it advisable to shutdown X and Linux from xterm/shell prompt?  For now,
>I've set up a box to boot directly into gdm, then onto WindowMaker.
>WindowMaker doesn't have computer shutdown or reboot menu by default.  In
>order to rely on menu, I need to log out and use gdm's shutdown or reboot
>menu.  Being this PC is running on 133MHz, gdm isn't the fastest component
>to be loaded just for shutdown.  Is it okay to issue /sbin/init 0(6) from
>xterm?  Is there any other way?  Whatever the case is, I just want to add
>another WM menu that does the PC shutdown.
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>By the way, since when did cox start charging extra for multi-computer
>connection to their service?!?
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>Koji
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