





                               Rebooter
			      
			 
			      
           Version 0.2, Copyright (c) Tuomo Valkonen 1997-1998.
			      




Rebooter is free software distributed on as-is basis and comes absolutely with
no warranty. Therefore shall the author in no way be responsible for any kind 
of damage possibly caused by the use or abuse of the program or mistakes in 
the documentation. The author shall in no way be liable for possible 
infringements on copyrights, trade secrets or any patents by any part of the 
program. As the program is free software, you are allowed and even encouraged
to copy and distribute it to your friends and everyone else as long as they're 
not paying for the software itself. You are allowed to use the sources but if 
you do so, the resulting software must be placed under a free software license
and the original author(s) must be given the appropriate credits. 


WHAT IS REBOOTER ?
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 Rebooter is an add-on to Choose-OS that displays a dialog where you
 can:
	* Shutdown the system (run /sbin/halt)
	* Reboot the system   (run /sbin/reboot)
	* Start any of the images found in chos mapfile
	  (modifies chos mapfile and runs /sbin/reboot.
	   chos 0.81 or newer required)

 Rebooter uses Qt 1.3, which you must download from http://www.troll.no/qt
 unless you already have it.

 So, why did I do this shit ? Well, I was asked if I could make some
 simple way (that people who don't know what an OS is could understand)
 of booting windog'95 from linux (like the linux loader for windoze'95)
 I hope rebooter is that kind of program...



HOW CAN I INSTALL IT ?
----------------------

 *
 * Please note that rebooter _must_ be installed SETUID root and
 * therefore is a massive security hole!
 * (but that is only a problem on network servers)
 *

 1. Run ./Install to copy the binary in /usr/bin/X11

 2. (If you have a single-user system you may skip this part)
    Create /etc/rebooter.deny and/or /etc/rebooter.allow files.
    If neither exists, everyone is allowed to use rebooter!
    If a user's name is found in /etc/rebooter.deny or if
    /etc/rebooter.allow exists and the user's name is not found
    there, (s)he's not allowed to use rebooter.
    Root is, of course, always allowed to use rebooter.


MORE INFORMATION:
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 For more information see the HTML documentation in ./docs
 (the docs view perfectly with at least netscape4.0 but can be browsed with
  at least kfm, kdehelp and lynx with some visual bugs, though...).


CREDITS:
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 The program was written by
	Tuomo Valkonen <tuv1@freenet.hut.fi>

 Please send me all bug report, comments, suggestions, etc. 
 (flames > /dev/null)

