[Gllug] Shutting down Linux?

[Bruce Richardson]

On Sun, Dec 09, 2001 at 01:13:10PM +0000, James.Rocks at equant.com wrote:
> Next question :-)
> 
> Windows (anything) can shutdown the OS from GUI straight to "off" and I was
> about to ask if there was a way (or utility) that can completely shutdown
> Linux from my GUI desktop. I then thought why not create an application
> shortcut (symobolic link?) on the desktop that's command line was "shutdown
> -r now" which worked fine (except it restarted because I used '-r' ... duh,
> I think that should have been '-h'!) so that's OK.

You're using KDE - you can shutdown from the Login prompt.  In version
2.2, anyway.

-- 
Bruce

If the universe were simple enough to be understood, we would be too
simple to understand it.
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