Shutdown klutz problems

Todd and Margo Chester ToddAndMargo at verizon.net
Tue May 11 21:28:38 CEST 2010


On 05/11/2010 11:38 AM, Thomas Eriksson wrote:
>
>
> On 05/11/2010 11:25 AM, Mark Knecht wrote:
>> 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
>
> One way to work around this, would be to use the "kiosk" interface
> to limit the use of the shutdown functionality in xfce-session.
>
> Put these lines into /etc/xdg/xfce4/kiosk/kioskrc
>
> [xfce4-session]
> Shutdown=NONE
>
> The shutdown button will now be grayed out.
>
> If you still want to allow shutdown by users, it could be done from
> the gdm screen or via sudo.
>
> -Thomas

Are there any other options to "Shutdown="?



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