Re: Redhat specifics [gnome-core/gsm]

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Wed, Mar 14, 2001 at 12:02:14PM +0000, Glynn Foster wrote:
> >From what I can gather [from my own machine], /usr/bin/shutdown is a shell
> script that calls either halt or reboot....But seemingly /usr/bin/shutdown
> doesn't exist on some RH dists (7.1?), causing a non-appearance of this dialog 
> which some people are missing. I'd change the code to /sbin/shutdown but I'm
> not sure if the consequences of this action are a good idea.

  Conformance to FHS, I can hardly see why it would not be a good idea :-)

> Anyone from RH know the suituation of this problem? I suspect that maybe this
> effects other distros as well. Maybe something universal could be hacked 
> together?

  All (Linux) distros should have this problem ;-)
  http://www.pathname.com/fhs/2.0/fhs-3.10.html
  3.10 /sbin : System binaries (binaries once kept in /etc)
  Shutdown commands: 
    { fastboot, fasthalt, halt, reboot, shutdown } 

Daniel

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