Shutdown klutz problems

[Mark Knecht]

On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 11:22 AM, David Rosenstrauch <darose at darose.net> wrote:
> On 05/11/2010 01:06 PM, Todd and Margo Chester wrote:
>>
>> Hi All,
>>
>> I am running Xfce 4.4.2 on a CentOS 5.4 server. The server is a critical
>> enterprise level server. Twice now fumble fingers here has hit shutdown,
>> instead of, logout. It is very, very embarrasing. (And the third time
>> I do it, I may get my butt kicked.)
>>
>> Is there a way to modify the exit utility so that it will give an extra
>> prompt
>> for shutdown? Can I substitute Gnome's shutdown prompt? Is there
>> any modification I can make to keep this from happening again?
>>
>> Many thanks,
>> -T
>
> I've had this happen too, and agree it's a bit irritating.  Don't know of
> any workaround, unfortunately.
>
> DR

We have the same problem here at home sometimes as our MythTV backend
server is also my wife's desktop machine. It's the middle of the
evening, she's tired and forgets to just log out and instead shuts
down. Recordings ruined.

- Mark