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Re: SEUL: SEUL duplicating efforts?




Þann 14-Feb-98 skrifar Erik Walthinsen:
> 
> One of the hacks needed here is some way to reboot or shutdown the machine
> from this point.  Something that has annoyed me equally in both Windoze and 
> Linux is that you have to log in to shutdown the machine cleanly.  Being 
> able to do so from the XDM login prompt will be a plus.
> 
  I remember on some older Unix systems, there was a shutdown user.  How
about re-implementing that... it could run a process, that would check if
there were users on the system, and shut it down cleanly if there weren't
any?

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