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NAME

       qshutdown - An avanced shutdown tool

SYNOPSIS

       qshutdown

DESCRIPTION

       qshutdown  is  a simple tool to choose a time or a number of minutes to
       shutdown, reboot, suspend or hibernate after.

       qshutdown will show it self 3 times as a warning if there are less than
       70  seconds  left.  (if  1 Minute or local time +1 Minute was set it’ll
       appear only once.)

       This program uses qdbus  to  send  a  shutdown/reboot/suspend/hibernate
       request  to  either  the  gnome-  or  kde-session-manager, to HAL or to
       DeviceKit and if none of these works, the command ’sudo shutdown’  will
       be used (note that when sending the request to HAL or DeviceKit, or the
       shutdown command is used, the Session  will  never  be  saved.  If  the
       shutdown command is used, the program will only be able to shutdown and
       reboot). So if nothing happens when the  shutdown-  or  reboot-time  is
       reached,  it  means that one lacks the rights for the shutdown command.
       In this case one can do the following:

       Post the following in a terminal: "EDITOR:nano sudo -E visudo" and  add
       this  line:  "*  ALL  = NOPASSWD:/sbin/shutdown" whereas * replaces the
       username or %groupname.

Configurationfile qshutdown.conf

       The maximum Number  of  countdown_minutes  is  1440  (24  hours).   The
       configurationfile (and logfile) is located at ~/.qshutdown

For admins:

       With  the  option Lock_all in qshutdown.conf set to true the user won’t
       be able to change any settings.   If  you  change  the  permissions  of
       qshutdown.conf  with  "sudo chown root -R ~/.qshutdown" and "sudo chmod
       744 ~/.qshutdown/qshutdown.conf", the user  won’t  be  able  to  change
       anything in the configurationfile.

AUTHOR

       Hakaishi

                                  2009-10-26                      qshutdown(1)