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Date:      Thu, 24 Jan 2008 13:52:15 -0800
From:      "Kevin Oberman" <oberman@es.net>
To:        jahnke@sonatabio.com
Cc:        freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Epiphany Upgraded to 2.20.3 Crashes 
Message-ID:  <20080124215215.55E0B45017@ptavv.es.net>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 24 Jan 2008 10:46:03 PST." <1201200363.988.57.camel@pinot.fmjassoc.com> 

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> From: Frank Jahnke <jahnke@sonatabio.com>
> Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2008 10:46:03 -0800
> Sender: owner-freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org
> 
> 
> On Thu, 2008-01-24 at 12:16 -0600, Jeremy Messenger wrote:
> > I have started to use GDM ever since  
> > when GNOME depends on GDM more like for shutdown, restart and etc that  
> > provide GNOME desktop functions better.
> 
> What are those things?  I start the "usual Gnome stuff" in rc.conf; if 
> the only benefit is shutdown or reboot convenience (not going through su 
> on the console) I can live with that.  OTOH, if there is some other 
> functionality I'm missing, I'd love to know about it.

sudo is your friend.

alias shutdown	sudo shutdown
with the appropriate entry in /usr/local/etc/sudoers
username hostname = NOPASSWD: /sbin/shutdown

The Gnome people seem to think GDM is the only way and pulled the handy
shutdown and reboot options from logout when not running GDM and I
suspect that this was to "push' the use of GDM. 
-- 
R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer
Energy Sciences Network (ESnet)
Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab)
E-mail: oberman@es.net			Phone: +1 510 486-8634
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