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From: kremer@cs.odu.edu (Lloyd Kremer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.att
Subject: Re: 6386 shutdown: I CAN'T BELIEVE at&t was really this stupid!
Summary: shell field does not take arguments
Message-ID: <9243@xanth.cs.odu.edu>
Date: 15 Jun 89 13:26:40 GMT
References: <483@oglvee.UUCP> <14401@bfmny0.UUCP>
Organization: Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Va.
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In article <14401@bfmny0.UUCP> tneff@bfmny0.UUCP (Tom Neff) writes:

>Also - to simplify the shutdown procedure in the event of my team's absence
>(say, if someone had to run in and shut things off due to an emergency in
>the building or an impending power shutdown), I create the following
>entry in /etc/passwd:
>
>	shutdown:x:0:1:Shut down the system:/usr/shutdown:/bin/sh
>
>and the following /usr/shutdown/.profile:
>
>	cd /
>	exec /etc/shutdown -y -g15
>
>I could do the same thing directly by naming shutdown as the startup 
>shell, but I hate having to edit /etc/passwd just to change things 
>like delay options. 


Small point, but I don't think you *could* do it directly in /etc/passwd.
In any AT&T system I know, the shell field of /etc/passwd does not allow
options or arguments.

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					Lloyd Kremer
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