Re: Why sudo does it ?

I'm guessing that reboot != shutdown -r now. Try running: sudo shutdown -r now Uh. no. Last time I checked, it wasn't even close. The story I've always heard is that you shouldn't run halt or reboot yourself. Those are run by shutdown as the last thing it does. shutdown unmounts all of

Re: Why sudo does it ?

Joe Emenaker writes: If you just call halt yourself, you're probably going to get some filesystem curruption. Unless you are an old Unix hacker, in which case you will type 'sync; sync; halt'. -- John HaslerThis posting is in the public domain. [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Why sudo does it ?

On Fri, 11 Dec 1998, shaul wrote: [01:53:38 shaul]$ sudo -l You may run the following commands on this host: (root) /sbin/halt (root) /sbin/shutdown -r now (root) /sbin/shutdown -h now [01:55:14 shaul]$ sudo reboot Sorry, user shaul is not allowed to execute

Why sudo does it ?

[01:50:34 shaul]# cat /etc/sudoers # sudoers file (/etc/sudoers). # # This file MUST be edited with the 'visudo' command as root. # # See the man page for the details on how to write a sudoers file. # # Host alias specification # User alias specification ## # Cmnd alias specification ##

Re: Why sudo does it ?

On Fri, 11 Dec 1998, shaul wrote: [01:53:38 shaul]$ sudo -l You may run the following commands on this host: (root) /sbin/halt (root) /sbin/shutdown -r now (root) /sbin/shutdown -h now [01:55:14 shaul]$ sudo reboot Sorry, user shaul is not allowed to execute /sbin/reboot as