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| author | Brian Cameron <brian.cameron@sun.com> | 2005-08-02 22:07:32 +0000 |
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| committer | Brian Cameron <bcameron@src.gnome.org> | 2005-08-02 22:07:32 +0000 |
| commit | e45ff0e99eee0a75ace879999dd9222af8816457 (patch) | |
| tree | d34d1f2156427303f796370d7f356511892fd364 /README.install | |
| parent | e2cdc42881a96e02b03b609b49656201d68163ab (diff) | |
| download | gdm-e45ff0e99eee0a75ace879999dd9222af8816457.tar.gz | |
Updated text to include information about HaltCommand and RebootCommand.
2005-08-02 Brian Cameron <brian.cameron@sun.com>
* README.install: Updated text to include information about
HaltCommand and RebootCommand.
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diff --git a/README.install b/README.install index 66eeffb6..82d45418 100644 --- a/README.install +++ b/README.install @@ -85,6 +85,19 @@ Configuration is done by editing the gdm.conf file (located in <prefix>/etc/gdm/gdm.conf). If no config file exists, make install will create one for you. +The default HaltCommand and RebootCommand gdm.conf options may +not be appropriate for your distribution. Distribution vendors +who ship GDM are advised to modify these to the supported +Halt/Reboot commands for their system. The correct HaltCommand +for FreeBSD is "/sbin/halt -p" so the disks are synced on shutdown, +and on other systems "/sbin/init 0" or /sbin/init 5" may be most +appropriate. The correct RebootCommand for some systems may +be "/sbin/init 6". Patches to improve the GDM configure script +and how it sets these values by default would be accepted. + +On some systems "/sbin/init 0", "/sbin/init 5", +or "/sbin/halt -p" may be + If you want to add distribution-specific directories to the end of DefaultPath and RootDefaultPath, then use the --with-post-path configure option. Argument value should be a list of directories |