Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Several questions -- various topics
Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2006 21:44:25
Message-Id: 200611222137.28675.michaelkintzios@gmail.com
In Reply to: RE: [gentoo-user] Several questions -- various topics by "Timothy A. Holmes"
1 On Wednesday 22 November 2006 18:39, Timothy A. Holmes wrote:
2 > > -----Original Message-----
3 > > From: Neil Bothwick [mailto:neil@××××××××××.uk]
4 > > Sent: Wednesday, November 22, 2006 5:43 AM
5 > > To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
6 > > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Several questions -- various topics
7
8 [snip]
9 >
10 > Hi Neil:
11 >
12 > Turns out that gksu has resolved all but one of the problems, and that
13 > one is with the shutdown command.
14 >
15 > If I run gksu shutdown -h now, gksu interperates the -h as a command to
16 > it, instead of connecting it to the shutdown command. The result is
17 > either the help information being displayed, or an error of an
18 > unrecognized command and the help output.
19
20 You can used -- after the last argument for gksu. In your case there are no
21 arguments for gksu, so stick it immediately after.
22
23 HTH
24 --
25 Regards,
26 Mick