[Mageia-dev] Anyone know where /usr/bin/shutdown comes from?

Sat Sep 8 12:01:12 CEST 2012

'Twas brillig, and Charles A Edwards at 07/09/12 23:16 did gyre and gimble:
+> On Fri, 07 Sep 2012 20:08:53 +0200
+> Olivier Blin wrote:
+> 
+>>> Not owned by any package so presumably it's from a %post or similar.
+>>> Anyone know which package or a way to easily search for it?  
+>>
+>> Looks like it's created by msec, see /usr/share/msec/plugins/msec.py:
+>>     shutdown.exists() or shutdown.symlink(CONSOLE_HELPER)
+>>
+>> And from "rpm -q --scripts usermode":
+>>
+>> postinstall scriptlet (using /bin/sh):
+>> if [ ! -z "$SECURE_LEVEL" ];then
+>> if [ -x /usr/sbin/msec -a "$SECURE_LEVEL" -gt "3" ]; then
+>> /usr/sbin/msec $SECURE_LEVEL || true ; fi
+>> fi
+> 
+> 
+> Yep.
+> 
+> If you look at the file type it's a symlink to consolehelper.
+> If called as user it will require root passwd to run.
+
+
+Ahh nice, thanks for the replies. msec indeed.
+
+We can now replace this symlink with a direct link to systemctl and
+policy kit should take care of things. Seems odd that shutdown was
+affected by msec, but halt, reboot and poweroff were not. Seems kinda
+pointless and a mis-feature really.
+
+As it never really worked, I'll kill it from msec and just ship it
+statically. If this msec feature is needed/desirable then it'll need to
+be re-implemented as an automatic edit of the policykit policy.
+
+Col
+
+
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