Re: Rebooting the System

[Guy Rouillier <guyr-ml1 burntmail com>]

Sandeep KS wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>         I am doing a project using GTK which needs rebooting of the system. 
> When the code is executed, the user is asked to select some details. After he enters all the details and clicks on the  OK button, i need to save all the details and reboot the system. After rebooting, i need to execute the code again automatically with the next page of the code displayed. I also need to show all the saved details.
> Is it possible to achieve this? How can i do it?

What are you doing that requires rebooting the system?  This behavior is 
a Windows-ism that normally isn't required on Unix-type OSes.

Shutdown and reboot are protected operations.  You won't be able to rely 
on them being available to non-root users.

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Guy Rouillier