session

[Brian J. Tarricone]

Net Llama! wrote:

> On 10/21/2004 05:53 PM, Brian J. Tarricone wrote:
>
>> On 10/22/04 02:49, ewajacobs wrote:
>>
>>> Here I am again, the annoying user who reports yet another glitch :)
>>> When I press the power button, I get the menu prompted as it is 
>>> supposed
>>> to be, however on that menu two of the three options is commented out
>>> (reboot and shut of).
>>> I have acpi working well on my machine but don't use a login manager
>>> (xdm/kdm/gdm/edm/etc), I'm a startx diehard ;)
>>> This is why the menu options are commented out?
>>> cheers
>>
>>
>>
>> you need to have sudo set up to allow your user to run 'shutdown', and
>> possibly 'reboot', 'halt', and/or 'poweroff' as well.
>
>
> That can't be why its commented out though.  I don't have sudo setup, 
> and mine are still available (and fail to work as a result).

i recall that there used to be another shutdown method that didn't use 
sudo but didn't work right either on some systems.  i thought it was 
removed though.  how old is your copy of the session manager?

    -brian