RE: shutdown cmd? Help...


Subject: RE: shutdown cmd? Help...
From: fulghum, matt (matt2@bcc.cba.ua.edu)
Date: Wed Jan 16 2002 - 12:22:51 MST


or, instead of issuing just "su", you could use "su -", which would load
root's profile, including path.

> ----------
> From: John Schmidt
> Reply To: yellowdog-general@lists.yellowdoglinux.com
> Sent: Wednesday, January 16, 2002 1:19 PM
> To: yellowdog-general@lists.yellowdoglinux.com
> Subject: Re: shutdown cmd? Help...
>
> On Wednesday 16 January 2002 12:08 pm, you wrote:
> > Hello All, Please tell me how to shutdown correctly or reboot. I have
> > logged out of Kde, drop to the cmd line, su to root, type 'shutdown
> > -h now' or instead of -h, -r, and am given the response cmd not
> > found. What am i doing wrong? shutdown space -h space now, what is
> > wrong here. All I want to do is shutdown or reboot properly so I can
> > go to OS X, or back to Kde. Any help is greatly appreciated
> > TIA,
> > k~
>
> Try /sbin/shutdown -h now (as root). /sbin is not in your path as the
> normal
> user.
>
> John
>
>



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