Hello, I've just returned to Debian (potato) after a short (6 month) excursion into RedHat 6.1. I work for SAP (of R/3 fame) which has released R/3 for Linux, but only on RedHat. Foolishly, I thought I should make the transition in order to install a test system at home. I must say that I don't agree with the magazine reviews which generally seem to prefer the commercial distributions to Debian GNU/Linux... Thanks to all of you who work so hard to produce such a great distribution.
Anyway, to my questions: I wanted to allow my family to shutdown the computer without giving them the root password. At first I installed sudo and set it up so that they could type "sudo shutdown -h now" at the command line. Then I noticed that the gnome-utils package includes "gshutdown". I can find no documentation, so was wondering where I could configure it so that certain persons could call it without being root. Any ideas would be most welcome! My second question concerns gdm. I've set things up within Gnome so that the screen turns on a screensaver after 10 minutes and then enters powersaving mode after another 20. The only problem is that the users generally log out before leaving the computer. In this state, with the gdm login dialogue showing, the screen does not enter powersave mode. Is there any way to enable shutting down the console monitor? Kind regards, Mike -- Dr. Michael R. Semple J. Spyriweg 15, CH-2543 Lengnau BE, Switzerland Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED], Phone: +41-(0)32-653 34 10
