had this problem once... solved it too... can't remember what I did tho.
try ctrl+alt+del... does that work ?
init 6 ?
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Philip S Tellis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Saturday, March 18, 2000 8:39 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: [ILUG-BOM] shutdown and halt
>
>
> I have to be root to run shutdown and halt. If I run it as any other
> user, it asks for a password. I assume this is the root password, and
> type it in. It waits for 1 second and returns to the shell prompt. No
> shutdown, no restart, no error messages.
>
> What is going on? I tried making the programs suid root, but no diff.
>
> Philip
>
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