You should be executing /sbin/shutdown. If you just type "shutdown" then that will execute /usr/bin/shutdown, which is a link to consolehelper, which is what you are seeing. So to reboot a redhat box its: /sbin/shutdown -r now Nothing is broken on your box. On Sun, 12 Mar 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > If I telnet to my firewall box on my private net and run shutdown -r now I get > the following error message: > > [root@CV256316-A magoo]# shutdown -r now > Xlib: connection to "localhost.localdomain:0.0" refused by server > Xlib: Client is not authorized to connect to Server > > Broadcast message from root (pts/0) Sun Mar 12 13:38:53 2000... > > The system is going down for reboot NOW !! > > > Does any one know what causes the Xlib: responces? I would like to fix what > ever is broken. > > TIA > Steve > > > -- > To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" > as the Subject. > ----------------------------------------------------- Brian Feeny (BF304) [EMAIL PROTECTED] 318-222-2638 x 109 http://www.shreve.net/~signal Network Administrator ShreveNet Inc. (ASN 11881) -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.
