Re: [newbie] Halt command

2002-01-18 Thread Joan Tur
Es Divendres 18 Gener 2002 11:49, en quaylar va escriure: joan, another solution would be to add your username to the /etc/shutdown.allow file and then shutdown your machine with shutdown -h now as that user --quay It isn't working for me. That file didn't exist before; i've created a

Re: [newbie] Halt command

2002-01-17 Thread Joan Tur
Es Dijous 17 Gener 2002 21:42, en tester va escriure: well, use an xterm $ su password(your root pw) # visudo put in a line like %users ALL=/sbin/halt NOPASSWD: ALL exit the insert mode :wq and you should be able to halt as any user with $ sudo /sbin/halt It is not working for me. I

Re: [newbie] Halt command

2002-01-17 Thread quaylar
joan, another solution would be to add your username to the /etc/shutdown.allow file and then shutdown your machine with shutdown -h now as that user --quay Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Halt Command

2001-01-19 Thread Tim Holmes
Keep in mind, --help is your friend! Your lover! A very close distant cousin! lol [root@yoda /root]# shutdown --help shutdown: invalid option -- - Usage:shutdown [-akrhfnc] [-t secs] time [warning message] -a: use /etc/shutdown.allow -k: don't

RE: [newbie] Halt Command

2001-01-18 Thread Jose M. Sanchez
1 11:34 PM To: Newbie Subject: [newbie] Halt Command Hi! Running LM 7.2. The system reboots ok but when I issue the 'halt' command it hangs up and errors/segmentation faults appear. What is causing this? Thanks!

Re: [newbie] Halt Command

2001-01-17 Thread L. H. LOO
At 16-01-2001 +1300, you wrote: Hi! Running LM 7.2. The system reboots ok but when I issue the 'halt' command it hangs up and errors/segmentation faults appear. What is causing this? Thanks! IIRC, the command is : shutdown -h now for immediate shutdown.

Re: [newbie] Halt Command

2001-01-16 Thread AL
Thanks for the tip. I'll give it a try... Best regards, Al "Ronald J. Hall" wrote: Hi. Sometimes this is the motherboard/chipset combination. I had something like this happen (as have others). What you have to do, as su/root is: use vi, kedit, (fill in word processor here) Go in to

[newbie] Halt Command

2001-01-15 Thread AL
Hi! Running LM 7.2. The system reboots ok but when I issue the 'halt' command it hangs up and errors/segmentation faults appear. What is causing this? Thanks!

Re: [newbie] Halt Command

2001-01-15 Thread Ronald J. Hall
AL wrote: Hi! Running LM 7.2. The system reboots ok but when I issue the 'halt' command it hangs up and errors/segmentation faults appear. What is causing this? Thanks! Hi. Sometimes this is the motherboard/chipset combination. I had something like this happen (as have others). What