>> Try to shutdown a machine from within X - this will hang your
>> machine too. This is not a kernel bug, neither it is X. It is
>> just doing stupid things (as root, and X "is" root-privileged)
>> in UNIX causes problems. It is fine by me ;)
> why is shutting down a machine from within X stupid? I don't
> understand this. If I have sysvinit, and my default runlevel is
> 5, then I would expect to be able to shut down my system by
> typing /sbin/shutdown or whatever in an xterm.
I don't know about it being stupid, but I've been doing just that for
over two years and have NEVER had a problem...
Best wishes from Riley.
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| There is something frustrating about the quality and speed of Linux |
| development, ie., the quality is too high and the speed is too high, |
| in other words, I can implement this XXXX feature, but I bet someone |
| else has already done so and is just about to release their patch. |
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* http://www.MemAlpha.cx/kernel.versions.html
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