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From:	Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@×××××.com>
To:	gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject:	[gentoo-user] Re: How to poweroff the system from user?
Date:	Sun, 22 Mar 2015 07:41:42
Message-Id:	`melrmq$7qm$1@ger.gmane.org`
In Reply to:	[gentoo-user] How to poweroff the system from user? by German

1	On 21/03/15 21:26, German wrote:
2	> If I run poweroff from root, the system shuts down, however when I run poweroff from user -- command not found. How to shut down the system from user? Thanks
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4	If you have dbus running (KDE, Gnome and others automatically use it),
5	then you can shut down with something like:
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8	dbus-send --system --print-reply --dest="org.freedesktop.ConsoleKit"
9	/org/freedesktop/ConsoleKit/Manager org.freedesktop.ConsoleKit.Manager.Stop
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12	You can make the above a script and save it in /usr/local/bin/dbus-halt
13	(or whatever.)
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15	Some more scripts:
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17	https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=127962