shutdown -h/-r problems.

From: Justin (justin_at_the.uk)
Date: 08/27/03 

Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2003 08:52:38 +0100

I have a perl/Tk program running in X which has a shutdown button. If
i startx and run said button it shuts down X and shuts down my box nice and
cleanly. If i have the respawn option set in my inittab like so:

# The default runlevel.
id:2:initdefault:

# System initialization.
si:2:sysinit:/rc.init

mi:2:wait:/etc/rcS

# Things to run in every runlevel.
ud:25:once:/sbin/update

# Start X
co:2:respawn:/bin/su user -c /bin/xstart

l0:0:wait:/etc/init.d/halt
l6:6:wait:/etc/init.d/reboot

It will reboot albeit not cleanly at all and leaves the /tmp/.X0-lock
behind. if i set the button to do a shutdown -h now it halts but X doesnt
shutdown, this method is also unclean and leaves the horrible lock file
behind.

Anyone know why this is happening? I thought the shutdown command changes
therunlevel?

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