Re: Shutdown Problem with 6.0 (no problem)

[Keith Russell <keithr pobox com>]

Thanks very much for your help with this, Jose, Thomas, and Bill.

On Fri, 2 Jul 1999 17:53:09 -0400
"Jose M. Sanchez" <opjose ex-pressnet com> wrote:

> If you check your /etc/inittab, you'll see that all [CTRL][ALT][DEL] does is
> invoke
> 
> "/sbin/shutdown -t3 -r now"
> 
> Yes it does a proper shutdown, especially if you see the system reboot
> without shutdown warnings...
> 
> Since this appears to be working; you are not running SHUTDOWN as root, you
> have another program called shutdown in your path, or you are specifying an
> inproper sytax.

And you are absolutely right. A whereis showed shutdown in /sbin and in
/usr/bin. The second is a link to consolehelper, which is new to me; but
it appears to execute /sbin/shutdown.

The thing that threw me off was that I was getting no error message,
which would seem to imply that the program was being found in the path.
The last possibility above was correct--"shutdown now" does not work,
but also does not give an error. (Why not? "shutdown" by itself displays help
with the proper parameters....) Once I changed my syntax, it works fine.

Thanks again. Now if someone could just tell me how to get a decent
display resolution on my emachines PC with Rage IIc AGP, I could get to
the fun stuff....

-- 
Keith Russell
keithr pobox com