On Thursday 02 Oct 2003 10:45 pm, ed tharp wrote: > > I have used shutdown -r now (and shutdown -h now) under both 9.0 > > and 9.1 withiout problems. Could your problem be because you > > didn't give it a timescale? It can be set to delay a short time, > > in order for other connections to be closed off. 'now' is > > required to make it immediate. > > > > Anne > > or had msec set so only root could reboot
That does seem a likely cause. I presume that this could be changed from MCC's boot options? Or is it hard-wired into some security levels? Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet?
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