> > Hello out there, > > After all I finally installed DEBIAN. > And, what else, I have a question: > When I successfully logout, a knew login appears. Know I switch of the > computer. When I switch it on again, there is a check for some stuff. > Is this right? Or have I not correctly finished it? > > Please help a greenhorn!
You need to give a shutdown command to shutdown properly. This can be shutdown -h now for a halt, or shutdown -r now for a reboot. To learn about other options, read the manual page (man shutdown). You need to be root or have root permission to do this. In general, you will do your normal work in a normal user account. From this account, you can become superuser by typing `su' and then giving the root password. Then you can give the shutdown command. From a text console, you can also press control-alt-delete for a proper shutdown, but I think that this can cause problems from X-windows. You can look into the `sudo' package for a different way to get permission for shutdown. On a side note, I think especially for new users it would be nice to have an item in the standard debian menus for a shutdown. It could run a command like xterm -title "Enter root passwd for system reboot" -e su root -c "/sbin/shutdown -r now" Any comments? HTH, Eric -- E.L. Meijer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) | tel. office +31 40 2472189 Eindhoven Univ. of Technology | tel. lab. +31 40 2475032 Lab. for Catalysis and Inorg. Chem. (TAK) | tel. fax +31 40 2455054
