From e45ff0e99eee0a75ace879999dd9222af8816457 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Brian Cameron Date: Tue, 2 Aug 2005 22:07:32 +0000 Subject: Updated text to include information about HaltCommand and RebootCommand. 2005-08-02 Brian Cameron * README.install: Updated text to include information about HaltCommand and RebootCommand. --- README.install | 13 +++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+) (limited to 'README.install') 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 /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 -- cgit v1.2.1