Re: Redhat specifics [gnome-core/gsm]



On Wed, Mar 14, 2001 at 08:10:15AM -0500, Daniel Veillard wrote:
> 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 :-)
> 

Debian (even Debian 2.2) has this "problem" as well.  Assuming that
/usr/bin/shutdown exists is not a good idea.  

           
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