Re: [PATCH] intro.1: some improvements

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Hello Michael,

Le mardi 10 mars 2015 à 07:09:10, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) a écrit :
> 
> I applied most of the patch, but...
> 
> On 03/09/2015 09:26 PM, Stéphane Aulery wrote:
> > - Add a section Logout and poweroff and change login/logout by open/close session
> 
> ... not this first piece. See comments below.
> 
> > +.SS Logout and poweroff
> > +When you work is finished,
> > +you can press Control-D to close the current session.
> > +This does not turn off the machine.
> > +Only superusers have access to this command.
> > +If you are the single user you can also not log off
> > +and becoming a superuser by typing the command
> > +.BR su (1).
> > +Also you must type yours password.
> > +Finally enter the command "shutdown -P +1",
> > +which will turn off the computer after one minute.
> > +See
> > +.BR shutdown (8).
> 
> I'm not sure that we really need most of the above piece. I mean, in these 
> days of GUI and laptops. Most of us use the GUI or close the lid to 
> shutdown/suspend.

I use startx / shutdown, so it does not shock me. This addition and the
other I have proposed that the reader knows what to do if X does not
start.

If you do not want, no problem, but now the page is incoherent:

- Control-D was moved to the non-added portion
- Su (1), shutdown (8) in excess in SEE ALSO

Regards,

-- 
Stéphane Aulery
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