shutdown command

Krasu

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Tuesday, May 10th 2005, 5:14pm

which console command is analog of "KMenu->Logout->Turn off computer" ?

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jacek

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Tuesday, May 10th 2005, 7:06pm

RE: shutdown command

	Source code
1	# shutdown -h now

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Krasu

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Tuesday, May 10th 2005, 9:34pm

RE: shutdown command

I mean KDE command, which will run KMenu->Logout->Turn off computer

'shutdown' brings the system down even if there is no DE running. I tried

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1	dcop kdesktop KDesktopIface logoutWithoutConfirmation

but it only restarts KDE ... Any ideas ?

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wysota

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Tuesday, May 10th 2005, 11:18pm

DCOP probably (and hopefully) doesn't allow that. This way any KDE application could shut down your computer. I don't know how about you, but I'd be angry if something like that happened to me.

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Krasu

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Tuesday, May 10th 2005, 11:38pm

Hmm ... But programs can still call something like

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1 2 3	KProcess pr; pr << "shutdown" << "-h" << "now"; pr.start(KProcess::Block);

So, it doesn't make sense what to call - DCOP method or 'shutdown'

OK, as I understood, I cann't do what I want

Thanks.

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wysota

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Tuesday, May 10th 2005, 11:54pm

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Originally posted by Krasu
Hmm ... But programs can still call something like
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KProcess pr;
pr << "shutdown" << "-h" << "now";
pr.start(KProcess::Block);

Yes, but they (the user that runs such a program) have to be allowed by the sysadmin to do that, but KDE probably does that as root or something like that and if you used dcop, it would probably execute with kwin owner's rights or even as root (again) so it would (again probably) be unstoppable.

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