warning: the following will compromise the security of your system and is not reccomended for use on a large corporate server ;)
#chmod u+s /sbin/halt The way that I understand your e-mail you have a set up about the same as my laptop with only myself and root as a user, and your system boots up into init level 3. The reason that the system does not shut straight down is because your user does not have the perms to do so... if you start gnome as root it should work. The above command allows ALL users on your system the ability to shut down the system reguardless of their competence or status. Let me know if this doesnt work for you or if i mis-interpreted you On Tue, 2003-09-30 at 18:01, Andrew Farmer wrote: > On Tue, 30 Sep 2003 14:53:22 -0700, Greg Yasko muttered: > > Hi. How can I setup Gentoo so that when shutting down or rebooting from > > Gnome the operation cascades instead of stopping at the prompt? > > > > Currently I have to log out of Gnome and then type "reboot or "shutdown > > -h now" at the prompt. > > > > Note, my Gentoo installation is set up without a display manager, and I > > like to be able to boot without starting x and then startx from the prompt. > > Use a display manager. gdm works well with Gnome. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
