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skippy

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Registered: 2008-02-07

Posts: 19

shutdown-not!

after latest upgrade my shutdown permissions have gone awry.

from xterm:

[skippy@dog]$ shutdown -r now
shutdown: you must be root to do that!
[skippy@dog] su root
password:
[root@dog]# shutdown -r now
shutdown: warning: cannot open /var/run/shutdown.pid
shutdown: /dev/initctl: Permission denied
init: must be superuser.

I've had permission to shutdown my system for 18 months, from the menu, without issue.  What gives?

Cilyan

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From: Toulouse (FR)

Registered: 2006-08-27

Posts: 97

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Re: shutdown-not!

Maybe try

$ su -
# shutdown -r now

It's a nicer way to become root. Usually the menu uses some tricks to do such operation withour being root. In GNOME for example, it's

gdm-control --shutdown

telling GDM to shutdown computer when session ends.

sHyLoCk

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From: /dev/null

Registered: 2009-06-19

Posts: 1,197

Re: shutdown-not!

To shutdown you need to use

sudo shutdown -h now

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~ Regards,
sHy
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