[clue-tech] Disabling shutdown.

[David L. Anselmi]

So I do backups on my desktop and sometimes have trouble with users 
shutting it down while they're running.

When I asked here before the idea of renaming or chmod -x on the 
shutdown command was suggested and that works pretty well, at least 
against the KDE "turn off" button.  Anyone know if there are commands 
that halt the system that bypass shutdown?

I'd also like to give the user some feedback (and even better log them 
out after).  I can script that with zenity (oh, and without zenity if 
they're in text mode, and autodetect!!) and the backups can swap 
shutdown for my script.

But maybe these fancy modern desktops already provide a way to send 
system messages to users, and disable shutdowns, that would be less work 
to maintain?  Perhaps in KDE it would be with dcop.

I guess that if I want cross-desktop it's a code it yourself deal.  So I 
won't complain if it's desktop-specific if it's built-in.

Anyone have any good ideas?

Dave