How do I get a shutdown/restart dialogue option under the system menu at run level 3 in FC5?

Ankush Grover ankush174 at gmail.com
Wed May 17 05:05:44 UTC 2006


On 5/17/06, sklein at cpcug.org <sklein at cpcug.org> wrote:
>
> I have four machines running FC5.  One is configured for run level 5 and
> the others for run level 3.  On the machine configured for run level 5, I
> get an option for a system shutdown/restart dialogue under the
> "System" menu.  On the machines configured for run level 3, I only get a
> logout option, and have to su to root and run "/sbin/shutdown -h (or -r)
> now" for shutdown or restart.  How do I get the shutdown/restart
> dialogue under the System menu for the machines at run level 3?
>
>
> Stan Klein
>
>
>
> You can issue this command "init 0" to shutdown the system in init level 3
> and "init 6" to restart the system. You can issue these commands with root
> only, with normal user you can use

"poweroff, shutdown, halt" etc. to know more about these commands read their
man pages.

for example   man poweroff

Regards

Ankush
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