On Tue, 04 Jan 2005 22:45, Hugo Vincent wrote: > Hi everybody, > > I set up a PC for my parents to do their email on, with Mandrake 10 and > Firefox/Thunderbird, but for some reason, their is no Shutdown item on > the menu. I can't remember how to allow the normal user to run > /sbin/shutdown as root (something in /etc/sudoers perhaps)? Can someone > please shed some light on the situation. > > Cheers, > Hugo.
On Mandrake 10 try the halt command if a user at the command line shell. If Mandrake 10 is set up for a graphical login "Shut down the computer" should be an option in the dialog box launched when the Logout menu item is selected . Cheers Ross Drummond
