This one time, at band camp, garrone said: > I am trying to get mythtv to do its automatic shutdown/wakeup for > recording of favorite television program. > > In the debian multimedia package, it's backend daemon is set to run with > user (called mythtv) privileges. Debian shutdown refuses to shutdown if > the user is not the superuser. > > Is there anyway to allow the mythtv backend to bring the system down > without giving it root privilege? It can be set up to run anything to > shutdown.
/etc/sudoers: mythtv ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD:/sbin/shutdown and then write a wrapper script that calls 'sudo shutdown -h now' (or just use that as the shutdown command). -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- | ,''`. Stephen Gran | | : :' : [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | `. `' Debian user, admin, and developer | | `- http://www.debian.org | -----------------------------------------------------------------
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