Fix shutdown button

[ErebusDeo]

I am getting seriously annoyed having to open a console and type init 0 to shutdown the computer when in backtrack. Can someone help me figure out how to hotkey the power button as init 0 ?

[whitelisted]

wait... you use backtrack regularly and you usually DON'T have at least one terminal window running? what on earth do you use it for?


right click the toolbar, add applet, non-KDE application launcher, executable: /sbin/init arguments: 0

[Archangel-Amael]

init 0 is not really the correct way to shutdown a linux box. One should really use shutdown command. While shutdown does call init it also runs through /etc/rc[0-6].d t to run any scripts that may get called for shutdown procedures. If you have multiple users on a machine they get no warning with init 0. Perhaps with BT there may be only one user. Also with init 0 there is no synchronization of disks. As such if they were in the process of writing something to disk as soon as init 0 get run this write process will be stopped. This could over time be detrimental.

[timcki]

just make a new shortcut on your desktop

give it the command : shutdown -h now

[shamanvirtuel]

halt is the command i use, i just add an applet button for this

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[XtremuZ]

wait... you use backtrack regularly and you usually DON'T have at least one terminal window running? what on earth do you use it for?


right click the toolbar, add applet, non-KDE application launcher, executable: /sbin/init arguments: 0

i use: /sbin/poweroff
any differences?