2011/11/29 Kurtis Brown <kurtisbro...@sky.com>

> Hi there, I am new here so hope I do this right.
>
> I have just installed debian squeeze, I installed the
> base system and have install icewm and xorg and a few
> other random programs.
>
> My issue is I cannot seem to reboot. I have tried commands like
> restart,reboot,shutdown and they say command not found. So I can only
> presume I haven't installed a package that will let me do this. What
> package would this be.
>

dbradders@Home:~$ which reboot
dbradders@Home:~$ sudo which reboot
/sbin/reboot
dbradders@Home:~$ which halt
dbradders@Home:~$ sudo which halt
/sbin/halt
dbradders@Home:~$ which shutdown
dbradders@Home:~$ sudo which shutdown
/sbin/shutdown

A normal user w/o privileges can just open and end a user session, only the
superuser can halt o reboot the computer.

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